Union Hospital is proud to be recognized among the top 5% of around 5,000 short-term, acute-care hospitals in the U.S. For the second consecutive year, we've been awarded the HealthGrades 2011 Emergency Medicine Excellence Award for caring for patients admitted through our Emergency Department. We also received the 2011 HealthGrades Patient Safety Excellence Award.
Emergency Medicine Excellence Award
This prestigious award is based on an analysis of patients who received emergency treatment and were admitted for the following:
- Pulmonary Embolism
- Respiratory Failure
- Gastrointestinal Bleed
- Diabetic Acidosis and Coma
- Bowel Obstruction
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Heart Attack
- Pancreatitis
- Pneumonia
- Sepsis
- Stroke
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Patient Safety Excellence Award
This award is based on excellence in patient safety indicators as simple as confirming a patient's identity and as complex as verifying the correct medication dosage preventing adverse drug interactions. The findings are drawn from a mandatory annual study.
The following patient safety indicators were evaluated:
- Foreign body left in after procedure
- Death in low mortality Diagnostic Related Groupings (DRGs)
- Pressure ulcer (bed sores)
- Death among surgical inpatients with serious treatable complications (previously known as "failure to rescue")
- Latrogenic Pneumothorax (collapsed lung)
- Catheter-related bloodstream infections
- Post-operative hip fracture
- Post-operative hemorrhage or hematoma
- Post-operative physiologic and metabolic derangements
- Post-operative respiratory failure
- Post-operative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis
- Post-operative sepsis
- Post-operative abdominal wound dehiscence
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