Hoag one of four Orange County and Los Angeles County hospitals on the list.
Newport Beach, CA (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 22, 2009 -- Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, Newport Beach CA is one of four hospitals in Los Angeles and Orange Counties and one of 12 in California called in the top 125 hospitals by Consumers' CHECKBOOK as appear by AARP The Magazine. The appellation of a "top hospital" is based on assorted achievement measures application over 30 actor annal of hospital stays by Medicare enrollees. The added institutions called in the Los Angeles and Orange County areas cover Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and Long Beach Memorial Medical Center.
We are accustomed to accept this admired endorsement Hoag Hospital is committed to confined Orange County by accouterment the accomplished above affliction to our patients, which is a attestation to the patient-centered affliction and adherence of the physicians, nurses and absolute bloom affliction team. "We are accustomed to accept this admired endorsement," said Richard Afable, M.D., Hoag Hospital admiral and CEO. "Hoag Hospital is committed to confined Orange County by accouterment the accomplished above affliction to our patients, which is a attestation to the patient-centered affliction and adherence of the physicians, nurses and absolute bloom affliction team."
Consumers' CHECKBOOK, a nonprofit chump analysis accumulation based in Washington, DC, conducted assorted surveys to actuate the scores, including: 280,000 physicians questionnaires were beatific appraisement hospitals in their own communities (20,000 returned) and a connected analysis of patients. Data was aswell calm from anniversary hospital on whether adapted tests and treatments were accustomed to patients in called types of cases, and more.
CHECKBOOK's advisers affected an all-embracing account for anniversary hospital application weights the advisers assigned to anniversary measure. The hospitals were ranked based on this all-embracing account and the accomplished scoring hospitals in anniversary association fabricated the top 125 list--at atomic two hospitals in anniversary association and three or four in beyond communities. The account came out of appraisal done for the latest copy of CHECKBOOK's Consumers' Guide to Hospitals, a book and website that will amount over 4,500 acute-care hospitals in the U.S., amid in the 53 better city areas. For added advice on the baronial s and research, amuse appointment www.checkbook.org.
About Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian (www.hoaghospital.org) is a 498-bed, not-for-profit, adroit affliction hospital amid in Newport Beach, Calif. Fully accepted by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and appointed as a Magnet hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), Hoag offers a absolute mix of bloom affliction services, including Centers of Excellence in cancer, affection and vascular, neurosciences, orthopedics and women's health. National Research Corporation has accustomed Hoag as Orange County's a lot of adopted hospital for the accomplished 13 after years. And for an aberrant 13 years, association of Orange County accept called Hoag as the county's best hospital in a bounded bi-weekly survey. In adjustment to accommodated the growing needs of Irvine and South County residents, Hoag will accessible an Irvine campus in 2010. Hoag continues to action added casework to the association through the seven Hoag Health Centers amid throughout Orange County.
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