Baylor hospital has lowest cardiac readmission rate in nation

Dallas Morning News by Jason Roberson | Jul. 10, 2009 (Special Report)

Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital, in government data released Thursday, had the lowest readmission rate for heart patients in the country, a key quality indicator that says the facility did the job right the first time.

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the payer of government-provided health insurance, published hospital quality scores of more than 4,700 hospitals on its Web site, hospitalcompare .hhs.gov, with the goal of ... Full Story »

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 by Samuel W. Velsor IV - Jul. 11, 2009

This is important to bring to the forefront cases of above the average, places from which new regulations should be taken.

Outcomes such as this should be the norm not the exception.

For instance, our standardized heart failure treatment plan saves the hospital $1,800 for every heart failure admission," Convery said. “If that kind of savings were applied around the country, $1.8 billion would be saved each year.”

A big something the the Health Committees should be looking at putting in the not so fine print.

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