Top Hospitals for Emergency Care - Have 40% LOWER Death Rate

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More than 123.8 million people in the United States will make an ED visit, and 13% will end up being admitted to the hospital, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Researchers analyzed more than 7 million Medicare patient records from 2008 to 2010 for 12 diagnoses: bowel obstruction, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetic acidosis and coma, gastrointestinal bleed, myocardial infarction, heart failure, pancreatitis, pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, respiratory failure, sepsis, and stroke.

Medicare patients admitted to the nation's best-performing hospitals for emergency medicine have a 40% lower death rate compared with all other hospitals, according to a new survey by HealthGrades, a Denver, Colorado–based provider of information about physicians and hospitals.

"If all hospitals performed at the level of the Emergency Medicine Excellence hospitals from 2008 through 2010, an additional 170,856 people could have potentially survived their emergency hospitalization," the HealthGrades release notes.

California
Alhambra Hospital Medical Center	Alhambra, CA
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center - Summit	Oakland, CA
Beverly Hospital	Montebello, CA
Eden Medical Center	Castro Valley, CA
French Hospital Medical Center	San Luis Obispo, CA
John Muir Medical Center - Walnut Creek	Walnut Creek, CA
Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center	Woodland Hills, CA
Mercy General Hospital	Sacramento, CA
Mercy Medical Center Redding	Redding, CA
Mercy San Juan Medical Center	Carmichael, CA
Peninsula Medical Center	Burlingame, CA
including    Mills Health Center	San Mateo, CA
Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital	Whittier, CA
Saddleback Memorial Medical Center - Laguna Hills	Laguna Hills, CA
including    Saddleback Memorial Medical Center San Clemente	San Clemente, CA
San Antonio Community Hospital	Upland, CA
Scripps Mercy Hospital	San Diego, CA
including    Scripps Mercy Hospital Chula Vista	Chula Vista, CA
Sequoia Hospital	Redwood City, CA
Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital	Grass Valley, CA
Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital	Auburn, CA
Sutter Delta Medical Center	Antioch, CA
Sutter General Hospital	Sacramento, CA
including    Sutter Memorial Hospital	Sacramento, CA
Sutter Roseville Medical Center	Roseville, CA
White Memorial Medical Center	Los Angeles, CA
Woodland Healthcare	Woodland, CA

In the Bay Area, 6 Hospitals were in the top 5%. 

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