Two Emory hospitals awarded top 10 status by University HealthSystem Consortium
The University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), an alliance of 119 academic medical centers and 291 of their affiliated hospitals, ranked Emory University Hospital (combined with Emory University Orthopaedics & Spine Hospital) second and Emory University Hospital Midtown sixth in the 2012 UHC Quality Leadership Awards.
This is the first time UHC has had two hospitals from one health care system rank in the national top 10. The UHC rankings are traditionally looked upon as providing the best, most non-biased national quality measurement system available for teaching hospitals.
“The main reason these rankings are important is that they are indicative of our significant improvements in achieving high survival rates, infection rate reductions, substantial reduction of ventilator-acquired pneumonia, and many other quality, safety, efficiency, and patient service indicators,” says John Fox, president and CEO of Emory Healthcare.
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