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Published on January 17, 2013

Owensboro Health Achieves Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence™ 

Owensboro, KY (January 17, 2013) – Owensboro Health announced today that it has received the Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence™ for the fifth consecutive year, retaining its ranking among the top five percent of more than 4,500 hospitals nationwide for clinical performance. The award comes from Healthgrades, a leading provider of information about physicians and hospitals.

Owensboro Health is one of 262 hospitals receiving the clinical excellence award today. While many hospitals cite specific areas of expertise and high-quality outcomes in individual specialties, hospitals receiving the clinical excellence award have demonstrated excellence and high-quality care across multiple service lines. From 2009 through 2011, top five-percent hospitals had an overall 30.9 percent lower risk-adjusted mortality rate as compared to hospitals that did not achieve clinical excellence award, which evaluates performance across 18 common inpatient conditions and procedures.

“Today, consumers have unprecedented access to information on hospital performance as it relates to specific conditions and procedures so that they can make more informed decisions about who to see and where to go for care,” said Evan Marks, EVP Informatics and Strategy. “The Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence enables hospitals to communicate their commitment to providing outstanding patient care and to show their continued efforts to improve clinical outcomes.” 

The clinical excellence award is based on dozens of star ratings Owensboro Health received in Healthgrades’ October 2012 annual announcement. For the second consecutive year, the hospital is holding its place in the top ten percent of hospitals in the nation for cardiology, stroke, pulmonary and critical care.  

For more information about Healthgrades, to download a full copy of the report or to get information about hospital and physician quality, visit: www.Healthgrades.com today.

About Owensboro Health

Owensboro Health serves an 11-county region in western Kentucky and southern Indiana. The hospital has received awards for clinical excellence (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013), patient safety (2010) and outstanding patient experience (2010) from Healthgrades, placing it among the top five percent of hospitals in the nation for quality. Owensboro Health Network also operates the Owensboro Health Healthpark—a medical-based fitness center—and a number of clinics and diagnostic centers in Beaver Dam and Madisonville (KY) and Tell City (IN) as well as The Clinic at Walmart in Owensboro, Henderson (KY) and Newburgh (IN).

Healthgrades Hospital Quality Distinctions

Healthgrades evaluates hospital performance for over 4,500 hospitals across the nation in 28 procedures and conditions annually. Healthgrades.com provides information on objective measures of hospital performance, which allows consumers to compare their local hospitals online at www.healthgrades.com/find-a-hospital. Healthgrades evaluates hospital performance for nearly every hospital in the nation; no hospital can opt-in or opt-out of being evaluated, and no hospital pays to be evaluated. Mortality and complication rates are risk adjusted, which takes into account differing levels of severity of patient illness at different hospitals and allows for hospitals to be compared equally.

About Healthgrades

Healthgrades, headquartered in Denver, Colorado, is a leading provider of comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals. More than 200 million consumers use the Healthgrades websites to select and communicate with physicians and hospitals that best meet their treatment needs. Consumers are empowered through use of the Healthgrades proprietary information about clinical outcomes, satisfaction, safety, and health conditions to make more informed healthcare decisions and take action. For more information please visit www.healthgrades.com and www.bettermedicine.com.

Media Contact

Gordon Wilkerson

270-685-7194

gordon.wilkerson@
owensborohealth.org