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St. Joseph Hospital was recently named to the 2009 Harvard Pilgrim Hospital Honor Roll. The list recognizes acute care hospitals whose performance was among the top 25 percent of those measured nationally on a set of quality and patient experience measures, as reported by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid on Hospital Compare and the Leapfrog Group’s patient safety measures.
Hospitals were evaluated on processes for caring for patients with heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and those having surgery. The results of patient surveys measuring hospital experiences were also included. Leapfrog patient safety data includes results hospitals achieved in intensive care unit (ICU) staffing, computerized physician order entry (CPOE), adherence to safe practices and preventing in-hospital injuries.
Only 40 hospitals and six academic medical centers in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island were named to the Honor Roll. St. Joseph Hospital was one of only 16 from Maine to make the list. This is the second year in a row that St. Joseph Hospital has been included on the Harvard Pilgrim Hospital Honor Roll.
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