Reading Hospital announced today that it has been named a 2023 Outpatient Joint Replacement Excellence Award™ recipient by Healthgrades, the leading marketplace connecting doctors and patients.
This recognition reflects Reading Hospital’s outstanding clinical outcomes for outpatient knee and hip replacement, placing Reading Hospital in the top five percent of hospitals nationwide for outpatient joint replacement - and one of only four hospitals in Pennsylvania with this distinction. Reading Hospital also received Five-Star Distinctions in both Outpatient Total Knee Replacement and Outpatient Total Hip Replacement.
“Joint replacement surgery helps individuals restore their lives,” said Charles F. Barbera, MD, Reading Hospital President and CEO. “I’m so proud of the ongoing efforts of our team members who work each day to provide high-quality care to our patients so they can get back to living the life they love. I congratulate the team for their outstanding efforts.”
Healthgrades analyzed patient outcomes at short-term acute care hospitals throughout the country that offer outpatient joint replacement. This analysis included years 2019 through 2021 to identify the top-performing hospitals for outpatient knee and hip replacement. Healthgrades’s analysis revealed significant variation in patient outcomes between hospitals that achieved a 2023 Outpatient Joint Replacement Excellence Award and those that did not. Patients treated at hospitals that received a 2023 Outpatient Joint Replacement Excellence Award have, on average, a 50.7% lower risk of experiencing a complication than patients treated at non-recipient hospitals. In fact, patients who have an outpatient joint replacement procedure at hospitals that did not receive the award, are more than twice as likely to experience one or more complications than patients treated at an award recipient hospital. These statistics are based on Healthgrades' analysis of SAF data for years 2019 through 2021, and represent three-year estimates for Medicare patients only.
“Through the industry’s first-outcomes-based outpatient award, Healthgrades is excited to recognize Reading Hospital for their ongoing commitment to providing high-quality care to patients undergoing outpatient joint replacement,” said Brad Bowman, MD, Chief Medical Officer and head of Data Science at Healthgrades. “Patients can feel confident that recipients of the 2023 Outpatient Joint Replacement Excellence Award have demonstrated their ability to deliver consistently exceptional outcomes.”
For more information on how Healthgrades identifies the nation’s top hospitals for outpatient orthopedic surgery, see the 2023 Outpatient Specialty Excellence Awards and Ratings Methodology. Consumers can visit Healthgrades.com to learn more about how Healthgrades measures hospital quality.
About Reading Hospital
Reading Hospital is the flagship, Magnet Recognized, acute care hospital of Tower Health. Located in West Reading, Pa., Reading Hospital is a 697-bed hospital that is home to many top-tier specialty care centers, including Reading HealthPlex, McGlinn Cancer Institute, Miller Regional Heart Center, Emergency Department, Level I Trauma Center and Beginnings Maternity Center, which houses the region's only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). With more than 1,000 physicians, specialists, and advanced practice providers across 49 locations, Reading Hospital has been recognized for its quality outcomes and clinical expertise across services lines. It is listed as one of America's 100 Best Hospitals for four consecutive years (and moving up to America’s 50 Best Hospitals in 2022) and received a 5-Star Rating from CMS two years in a row. For more information, visit towerhealth.org.
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