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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's hospitals and other East Tennessee hospitals care for all their adult patients with certain medical conditions. This information will help you compare the quality of care hospitals provide. 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 compares with other hospitals in the United States and Tennessee.
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:
The surgery is to replace a diseased hip joint with an artificial hip joint to free patients from stiffness and pain caused by osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. It is performed by an orthopedic surgeon who makes an incision in the patient's hip, removes the diseased joint, and replaces it with the artificial hip joint.
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