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 Quality Data United States Department of Health and Human Services This tool provides you with information on how well St. Mary's and other East Tennessee hospitals care for all their adult patients with certain medical conditions. Hospital Compare was created through the efforts of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and organizations that represent hospitals, doctors, employers, accrediting organizations, other Federal agencies and the public. Click here to view how St. Mary's Medical Center compares with other hospitals in the United States and Tennessee. Solucient® Top Hospitals The Solucient® 100 Top Hospitals: National Benchmarks for Success study objectively identifies hospitals that are the highest performers in the nation. The study uses a balanced scorecard approach, centered on nine key organization-wide measures: risk-adjusted mortality, risk-adjusted complications, risk-adjusted patient safety, core measures score, severity-adjusted average length of stay, expense per adjusted discharge, profitability, cash-to-debt ratio and growth in patient volume. St. Mary's Medical Center has been named one of the nation's 2007 100 Top Hospitals by Solucient. Click here to access the Solucient Web site.
HealthGrades HealthGrades independently analyzes nearly 5,000 hospitals in all 50 states and the District of Columbia for the ratings, objectively assessing their clinical outcomes and quality. The data utilized is licensed from the federal government’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The HealthGrades ratings measure whether patient outcomes for each of more than two dozen procedures and diagnoses are better than expected (5-Star), as expected (3-Star) or worse than expected (1-Star). Click here to access the Web site. St. Mary's Medical Center received five-star ratings from HealthGrades in the following areas:
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