CareChex Top U.S. Hospital for Interventional Carotid Care

The Delta Group is the nation's largest privately held healthcare information services company. Its CareChex® program is an innovative medical quality rating system designed to assist hospitals in improving quality of inpatient care and promoting medical excellence.

Relying on both public and proprietary measures of performance, CareChex compares the quality of hospital and physician care to national, state and local standards using a variety of process, outcome and patient satisfaction measures. These measures are then used to assign a composite quality score and rating which, unlike many other rating systems, provides a comprehensive, multidimensional analysis of medical quality.

CareChex lists Holston Valley Medical Center as the top hospital in the nation for interventional carotid care. And Holston Valley Medical Center and Bristol Regional Medical Center both ranked in the top 15 percent in the nation for cardiac care in 2011. Holston Valley ranks in the top 100 hospitals nationally for cardiac care, major cardiac surgery, heart attack treatment, coronary bypass surgery and overall medical care. Bristol Regional Medical Center is among the top 100 hospitals in the nation for major neurological surgery and trauma care and in the top 10 percent in the state for heart attack, heart failure treatment and cancer care.

Quality data for interventional carotid care (1,018 hospitals reviewed)

	Holston Valley Medical Center	Methodist Dallas Medical Center (Dallas)	Chesapeake General Hospital (Chesapeake)	St. Thomas Hospital (Nashville)	Johnson City Medical Center	University of Alabama Hospital (Birmingham)	Vanderbilt University Hospital (Nashville)
Rating
Score	99.9	99.5	99.0	98.6	34.9	10.4	8.6
National Rank	1	5	8	11	663	912	930
Mortality Overall
Complications Overall
Inpatient Quality
Patient Safety

Quality data for cardiac care (4,230 hospitals reviewed)

	Holston Valley Medical Center	Bristol Regional Medical Center	Indian Path Medical Center	Franklin Woods Comm. Hospital	Johnson City Medical Center	Pikeville Medical Center	Johnston Memorial Hospital
Rating
Score	98.1	85.7	85.1	63.9	47.0	33.5	20.2
National Rank	65	605	629	1,529	2,240	2,815	3,376
Mortality Overall
Complications Overall
Inpatient Quality
Patient Safety
Core Process

Quality data for interventional coronary care (1,573 hospitals reviewed)

	Holston Valley Medical Center	Bristol Regional Medical Center	Indian Path Medical Center	Johnson City Medical Center	Pikeville Medical Center	Franklin Woods Comm. Hospital
Rating						--
Score	84.1	75.7	70.3	22.3	15.2	--
National Rank	250	383	467	1,223	1,334	--
Mortality Overall
Complications Overall						--
Inpatient Quality
Patient Safety						--
Core Process						--

Quality data for heart attack treatment (3,788 hospitals reviewed)

	Holston Valley Medical Center	Bristol Regional Medical Center	Indian Path Medical Center	Franklin Woods Comm. Hospital	Pikeville Medical Center	Johnson City Medical Center	Johnston Memorial Hospital
Rating
Score	95.8	88.8	76.8	59.2	54.5	46.3	38.5
National Rank	127	423	880	1,544	1,722	2,033	2,331
Mortality Overall
Complications Overall
Inpatient Quality
Patient Safety
Core Process

Note: A composite quality rating of "check plus plus" requires a composite quality score ≥90th percentile with no individual quality measurement scores <26th percentile; otherwise a "check plus" is assigned.

≥90th Percentile

75th-89th Percentile

26th-74th Percentile

11th-25th Percentile

≤10th Percentile

2012 National Quality Rating Database: FFY 2008-FFY 2010
The Delta Group's National Quality Rating Database includes virtually all general, acute, non-federal U.S. hospitals.

Quality criteria

CareChex incorporates seven peer-reviewed methodologies that specifically address key components of the quality of inpatient care. These methods encompass the following quality measures, many of which have been adopted by the Hospital Quality Alliance and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for public reporting.

• Core process measures
• Patient safety indicators
• Inpatient quality indicators
• Mortality rates
• Complication rates
• Readmission rates
• Patient satisfaction measures

Related Links

• The Delta Group 
• CareChex 
• Hospital Quality Alliance 
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 
• Holston Valley Medical Center 
• Bristol Regional Medical Center