The Sutter Delta Blog http://sutterdeltamedicalcenter.posterous.com on Posterous posterous.com Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:00:00 -0700 Sutter Delta's ER Gets "High Grades" http://sutterdeltamedicalcenter.posterous.com/sutter-deltas-er-gets-high-grades http://sutterdeltamedicalcenter.posterous.com/sutter-deltas-er-gets-high-grades

Check out this story from this morning's Contra Costa Times talking about the HealthGrades award we recently received:

This is how it works at Sutter Delta's Emergency Department. The job of the doctors and nurses is to take extraordinary circumstances and make them routine. And routinely, they get results.

A recent study of nearly 5,000 hospitals across the country by independent health care ratings organization HealthGrades ranked Sutter Delta's ED in the top 5 percent, landing it an Emergency Medicine Excellence Award. Emergency departments were rated in how they performed with 11 critical diagnoses, including heart attacks, strokes and respiratory failure.

The risk-adjusted mortality rate for patients at the top hospitals was 39 percent lower than the other hospitals.

You can read the whole article online at the Contra Costa Times website.

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