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Mercy Heart Center, A Top 100 Cardiovascular Hospital
For six years, Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa has been named one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals® for cardiovascular care by Solucient®, a health care information firm.
What does this mean for patients?
- With approximately 1,000 hospitals in the U.S. that provide comprehensive cardiac care, recognition as a Top 100 Hospital places the Mercy Heart Center in the top 10 percent of those facilities.
- If all hospitals provided the same quality of cardiovascular care as a 100 Top Hospital facility, survival rates could increase by more than 8,000 patients each year and approximately 575 additional patients could be complication-free.
- Both medical and surgical cardiovascular patients experience higher survival rates at Top 100 Hospitals. For example, a Top 100 Hospital had 21 percent fewer deaths than expected for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) patients while peer hospitals had only 1 percent fewer deaths than expected.
- Top 100 Hospitals performed up to 80 percent more percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) than their peers, and about 50 percent more CABGs. Research has shown that procedure volume is a critical factor in outcomes for cardiovascular patients.
- The average 100 Top Hospital discharges patients half a day earlier and at an average cost that is about 13 percent less than its peers.
More information on this study and other 100 Top Hospitals research is available at www.100tophospitals.com.
