Press Releases: Southern California
February 29, 2012
Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center Named ‘Top Hospital for Emergency Medicine’ in Nation
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. — Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center has been named a 2012 “Top Hospital for Emergency Medicine” in a national list by HealthGrades, a leading provider of comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals.
Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center is among 263 hospitals performing in the top 5 percent nationwide that were designated as Emergency Medicine Excellence Award hospitals. A full listing of these hospitals, by city, can be found online at HealthGrades.com.
“We are extremely pleased to receive this designation,” said Shirley Suda, MD, area medical director of Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center. “Our inclusion in HealthGrades’ list of Top Hospitals for Emergency Medicine in the country underscores our commitment to the very highest standards in quality of care and safety for our patients.”
“This honor further demonstrates our caregivers’ commitment to ‘evidence-based medicine,’ which follows protocols that are proven to have better outcomes,” says Garo Balkian, MD, chief of Emergency Medicine for Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center. “That means we have access to the best knowledge of how to treat stroke and other life-threatening conditions.”
The findings are based on an analysis of more than 7 million Medicare patient records from 2008 to 2010. HealthGrades’ “Emergency Medicine in American Hospitals” report analyzed patients admitted to the hospital through the emergency department for the following 12 diagnoses:
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The HealthGrades report included only those patients admitted to the hospital from the emergency room for further medical treatment, representing the full continuum of a patient’s care.
HealthGrades, headquartered in Denver, Colo., is a leading provider of comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals. For more information about the organization, visit HealthGrades.com.
About Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente is committed to helping shape the future of health care. We are recognized as one of America’s leading health care providers and not-for-profit health plans. Founded in 1945, our mission is to provide high quality, affordable health care services to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve. We currently serve 3.5 million members in Southern California. Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills currently serves about 200,000 members in the West San Fernando Valley and Ventura County. Care for members and patients is focused on their total health and guided by their personal physicians, specialists and team of caregivers. Our expert and caring medical teams are empowered and supported by industry-leading technology advances and tools for health promotion, disease prevention, state-of-the art care delivery and world-class chronic disease management. Kaiser Permanente is dedicated to care innovations, clinical research, health education and the support of community health. For more information, go to: www.kp.org/newscenter.
