Prime Healthcare Celebrates Patient Safety
Excellence Recognition from Healthgrades
The majority of Prime Healthcare's community hospitals have been recognized by
Healthgrades as 2023 Patient Safety Excellence Award recipients. This year marks the
eighth year in a row that Prime Healthcare has had more patient safety excellence awards
than any other health system (2016-2023), according to Healthgrades.
"We at Healthgrades strive to help patients make informed decisions about their care and
are grateful for Prime Healthcare's continued leadership in patient safety," said Dr. Brad
Bowman, Chief Medical Officer and head of data science at Healthgrades. "To have so
many hospitals recognized for patient safety speaks to Prime's commitment to delivering
exceptional care for the many communities they support. Through our 2023 Patient Safety

Excellence Awards, we seek to recognize hospitals that excel in providing top-quality care
for their patients while preventing serious injuries during hospital stays."
During the 2019-2021 study period, 164,592 potentially preventable patient safety
events occurred among Medicare patients in U.S. hospitals.* Healthgrades found that
just four patient safety indicators accounted for 74% of all patient safety events: hip
fracture due to an in-hospital fall, collapsed lung resulting from a procedure/surgery,
pressure or bed sores acquired in the hospital, and catheter-related bloodstream
infections acquired in-hospital. Healthgrades' analysis also revealed that patients treated in
hospitals receiving the Healthgrades 2023 Patient Safety Excellence Award were, on
average:
● 61.4%% less likely to experience an in-hospital fall resulting in hip fracture, than
patients treated at non-recipient hospitals*
● 52.7% less likely to experience a collapsed lung resulting from a procedure or
surgery in or around the chest, than patients treated at non-recipient hospitals*
● 66.1% less likely to experience pressure sores or bed sores acquired in the hospital,
than patients treated at non-recipient hospitals*
● 67.3% less likely to experience catheter-related bloodstream infections acquired in
the hospital, than patients treated at non-recipient hospitals*
"Providing exceptional care and ensuring patient safety are at the core of our mission and
has been especially critical these last several years throughout the pandemic. We are
grateful that nearly all our hospitals were honored by Healthgrades," said Sunny Bhatia,
MD, CEO of Region I and Corporate Chief Medical Officer for Prime Healthcare.
"Recognition for delivering on our mission of clinical excellence is an honor. This
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recognition is a testament to the commitment of Prime Healthcare, its clinicians and staff
to delivering exceptional outcomes for our patients."
When it comes to choosing healthcare, quality saves lives, which is why Healthgrades is
committed to delivering the most scientifically accurate and comprehensive information
about doctors and hospitals — with data insights not available anywhere else. To that end,
it's important for consumers to know that if all hospitals, as a group, performed similarly to
the 2023 Patient Safety Award recipients, on average, 95,880 patient safety events could
have been avoided. *
“Congratulations to the staff and physicians of our Prime Healthcare Foundation hospitals
that received this prestigious recognition,” said Kavitha Bhatia, MD, President and Chair of
Prime Healthcare Foundation and Chief Medical Officer of Strategy, Prime Healthcare. “This
is a true testament to Prime’s mission of bringing quality compassionate care to
communities and promoting health equity."
The following Prime hospitals received recognition in the Healthgrades 2023 ratings:
Centinela Hospital Medical Center, Inglewood, CA; Dallas Medical Center, Dallas, TX; Desert
Valley Hospital, Victorville, CA; East Liverpool City Hospital, East Liverpool, OH; Encino
Hospital Medical Center, Encino, CA; Garden Grove Hospital Medical Center, Garden Grove,
CA; Harlingen Medical Center, Harlingen, TX; Lake Huron Medical Center, Port Huron, MI;
Landmark Medical Center, Woonsocket, RI; Lehigh Regional Medical Center, Lehigh Acres,
FL; Lower Bucks Hospital, Bristol, PA; Paradise Valley Hospital, National City, CA; Providence
Medical Center, Kansas City, KS; Saint Clare's Denville Hospital, Denville, NJ; Saint Mary's
Regional Medical Center, Reno, NV; Saint Michael's Medical Center, Newark, NJ; Shasta
Regional Medical Center, Redding, CA; Sherman Oaks Hospital, Sherman Oaks, CA; St.
Mary's General Hospital, Passaic, NJ; St. Mary's Medical Center, Blue Springs, MO; West
Anaheim Medical Center, Anaheim, CA; Alvarado Hospital Medical Center, San Diego, CA;
Huntington Beach Hospital, Huntington Beach, CA; La Palma Intercommunity Hospital, La
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Palma, CA; North Vista Hospital, North Las Vegas, NV; Roxborough Memorial Hospital,
Philadelphia, PA; Suburban Community Hospital, East Norriton, PA.
Consumers can visit healthgrades.com for more information on how Healthgrades
measures hospital quality and access the complete methodology here.
*Statistics are calculated from Healthgrades Patient Safety Ratings and Excellence Award
methodology which is based primarily on AHRQ technical specifications (Version 2022.0.1)
for MedPAR data years 2019 through 2021 and represent three-year estimates for
Medicare patients only.
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About Prime Healthcare and Prime Healthcare Foundation: Prime Healthcare is an
award-winning health system operating 45 hospitals and more than 300 outpatient
locations in 14 states, providing over 2.6 million patient visits annually. It is one of the
nation's leading health systems with nearly 50,000 employees and physicians dedicated to
providing the highest quality healthcare. Fourteen of the Prime Healthcare hospitals are
members of the Prime Healthcare Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit public charity.
Based in Ontario, California, Prime Healthcare is nationally recognized for award-winning
quality care and has been named a Top 10 and Top 15 Health System by IBM Watson
Health. Its hospitals have been named among the nation's "100 Top Hospitals" 66 times
and have received more Patient Safety Excellence Awards from Healthgrades than any
other health system in the past seven years. To learn more, please visit
www.primehealthcare.com
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