Oconee Regional Medical Center recently received five-star ratings for clinical excellence in the following categories:
    · Respiratory Failure
    · Partial Hip Replacement
    · Sepsis (a potentially life-threatening type of inflammatory syndrome caused from an infection)

    These ratings were released by, HealthGrades, the nation’s leading healthcare rating company, following a comprehensive study of in-hospital mortality (survival) data from 2003-2005. HealthGrades also collaborates with another nationally-known healthcare quality assessment group know as “Leap Frog.”

    In the study, 40.6 million Medicare discharges from every U.S. hospital were analyzed for quality of care and patient outcomes. Risk-adjusted mortality and complication rates were calculated and hospitals were assigned a 5-star (better than expected), 3-star (as expected) or 1-star (worse than expected) quality rating for 28 diagnoses and procedures.

    Additionally, ORMC was the only hospital in Central Georgia with a 5-star (top) rating in Partial Hip Replacement, one of two hospitals with 5 stars in Respiratory Failure, and one of three 5-star hospitals in Sepsis.

    “Quality patient care is our top priority,” says Brian L. Riddle, Sr., President/CEO, of Oconee Regional Health Systems, Inc. “Recognition from an objective, independent source such as HealthGrades validates the care our physicians, nurses and staff deliver to the citizens of the Oconee region each and every day. We are excited about our scores and feel they are an accurate indication of the medical technology, clinical practices and procedures performed at ORMC.”

    Fifty percent of the potentially preventable deaths as determined by the study were associated with just four diagnoses: heart failure, community acquired pneumonia, sepsis and respiratory failure. ORMC has 5-star ratings in two of the top four diagnoses (sepsis and respiratory failure).

    “HealthGrades objectively assesses and rates hospital performance in order to help consumers make better and more informed healthcare choices,” explained Samantha Collier, MD, HealthGrades vice president of medical affairs. There’s nothing subjective about the ratings. They are based on outcome and mortality data that every hospital is required to submit to the federal government.”

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