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Manchester Memorial Hospital has been honored with the 2022 Patient Safety Excellence Award™ from Healthgrades.

 

The award recognizes hospitals scoring in the top 5% in the nation for patient safety, with the lowest occurrences of 14 preventable patient safety events. Manchester Memorial Hospital is the only hospital in Greater Hartford to achieve this recognition and one of only two hospitals in all of Connecticut.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How is patient safety measured?

Healthgrades studied 170,231 patient safety events involving Medicare patients between 2018 – 2020 and found four patient-safety indicators that accounted for 74% of all patient safety events.

According to Healthgrades, patients who are treated by hospitals that receive a Patient Safety Excellence Award are less likely to experience in-hospital injuries or infections, including:

55.8% less likely to
experience an in-hospital fallresulting in hip fracture.

52.6% less likely to
experience a collapsed lung resulting from a procedure or surgery
in or around the chest.

66.2% less likely to
experience pressure sores or bed sores acquired in the hospital.

65.8% less likely to
experience catheter-related bloodstream infections
acquired in the hospital.

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