Penrose-St. Francis Health Services has been named one of the nation’s 50 top hospitals – the only hospital in Colorado to receive the award from Healthgrades. It’s the sixth year for the award, which is based on clinical performance during a seven year period. It places Penrose in the top 1 percent of hospitals nationwide, [...]
Penrose-St. Francis Health Services has received another accolade from Healthgrades, a Colorado-based company that compiles information about hospitals based on Medicare records and awards those who have the best outcomes. The latest award for Penrose is a designation as America’s 100 best hospitals in orthopedic surgery and critical care. The findings are part of [...]
Continue reading …Penrose-St. Francis Health Services is among the top 5 percent in the nation for excellence in women’s healthcare, according to a new study by Healthgrades. The study evaluated 16 women’s medicine, cardiovascular, and bone and joint health treatments during 2008, 2009 and 2010, using data from the federal Medicare program. It’s the only hospital [...]
Continue reading …HealthGrades, an independent health care ratings organization, named Penrose-St. Francis Health Services among the top 10 percent in the nation for its cardiac care, orthopedics, neurosciences, pulmonary care, vascular and gastrointestinal medical treatments. The nation’s 5,000 hospitals were included in the study, which examined mortality rates and complication rates form government data from 2008, 2009, [...]
Continue reading …Penrose-St. Francis Health Services was ranked among the top 5 percent in the nation for women’s health for the third consecutive year. HealthGrades released the ranking, making Penrose the only hospital in the state to achieve the milestone. The findings are based on an analysis of more than 5 million Medicare patient records from 2007 [...]
Continue reading …Penrose-St. Francis Health Services has been named among the top 5 percent of hospitals in the nation for emergency medicine by HealthGrades. The award, which was given to both Penrose Hospital and St. Francis Medical Center, recognizes the top 268 hospitals with superior outcomes. It’s the second year the two received the award. The findings [...]
Continue reading …Penrose-St. Francis Health Services is ranked among the top 10 percent in the nation for several of its specialty treatments. HealthGrades, an independent health care ratings organization, found that the hospital ranks high in orthopedics, pulmonary care, critical care services, general surgery, cardiac care, stroke care and gastrointestinal medical treatments. All 5,000 hospitals in the [...]
Continue reading …Penrose-St. Francis Health Services was named to the top 5 percent in the nation for the second time, according to HealthGrades, an independent health care ratings organization. The study evaluated 16 women’s medicine, cardiovascular, bone and joint health treatments for 2006, 2007 and 2008, using information from the Medicare program. Penrose is the only provider [...]
Continue reading …Penrose-St. Francis Health Services was named one of the 50 top hospitals by HealthGrades, a Boulder-based independent health care ratings organization. HealthGrades analyzes patient outcomes at all 5,000 of the nation’s nonfederal hospitals, using data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This marks the third year in a row the hospital has received [...]
Continue reading …A new study ranks Penrose-St. Francis Health Services among the top 5 percent of hospitals in the country for its clinical quality. It is the seventh year that the local hospital system earned high rankings from HealthGrades, a private, nonprofit group that ranks hospitals based on information provided to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid [...]
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