HOLLYWOOD, Fla., Sept. 04, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Women’s Choice Award celebrates its fifth anniversary recognizing America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Patient Experience, which is the only national list that focuses on female patient satisfaction and recommendation scores. Initiated in 2010, this list was created to help women identify which hospitals deliver the best patient experience for women and their families.
An elite group of U.S. hospitals were awarded the designation – America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Patient Experience. The qualification process begins with scores derived for each hospital from the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) database. The score focuses on a subset of HCAHPS questions, which research and experience show are more important to women than to men. Weight is applied to each of those questions to adjust for relative importance in order to arrive at a numerical score. The scoring is objective and uniform. The best 100 scores in each of the four bed size categories determine the America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Patient Experience Women’s Choice Award recipients.
The following hospitals are among America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Patient Experience in 2015:
Athens Regional Health System (Georgia)
Avista Adventist Hospital (Colorado)
Bacon County Hospital (Georgia)
Baptist Health Paducah (Kentucky)
Baptist Medical Center Beaches (Florida)
Billings Clinic, Billings (Montana)
Castle Medical Center (Hawaii)
Catawba Valley Medical Center, Hickory (North Carolina)
CHRISTUS St. Michael Health System (Texas)
Citizens Medical Center (Texas)
Clovis Community Medical Center (California)
Cuyuna Regional Medical Center (Minnesota)
Cypress Pointe Surgical Hospital (Louisiana)
Doctors Hospital at Deer Creek, A Physician Owned Hospital (Louisiana)
Dunes Surgical Hospital (South Dakota)
Fulton County Health Center (Ohio)
Greenwich Hospital, A Member of Yale New Haven Health System (Connecticut)
Health First’s Viera Hospital (Florida)
Heritage Park Surgical Hospital (Texas)
Hill Country Memorial Hospital (Texas)
Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital (North Carolina)
Johnson Memorial Health, Franklin (Indiana)
Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center (California)
Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa Medical Center (California)
King’s Daughters Medical Center, Brookhaven (Mississippi)
Lafayette General Medical Center (Louisiana)
Lakewood Health System (Minnesota)
Lincoln Surgical Hospital (Nebraska)
Long Island Jewish Medical Center (New York)
Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore (Maryland)
Mercy Medical Center, Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Wilmington (North Carolina)
Northwest Specialty Hospital (Idaho)
Orange City Area Health System (Iowa)
Orthopaedic Hospital of Wisconsin (Wisconsin)
Parkview Medical Center (Colorado)
Physicians’ Specialty Hospital (Arkansas)
Pullman Regional Hospital (Washington)
Rockcastle Regional Hospital & Respiratory Care Center (Kentucky)
St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital (Ohio)
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southlake (Texas)
The Valley Hospital (New Jersey)
Thomas Hospital, Fairhope (Alabama)
Union General Hospital (Georgia)
Unity Medical and Surgical Hospital (Indiana)
UAMS Medical Center at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (Arkansas)
“The proper level of care impacts one’s health, well-being and healing,” said Delia Passi, CEO and Founder of the Women’s Choice Award. “We feel it’s critical for women to know which hospitals have demonstrated the highest level of quality care to their patients, with a special focus on the female experience,” added Passi.
The complete listing is available at http://www.womenschoiceaward.com/awarded/best-hospitals/100s-best/ and a corresponding congratulatory announcement will appear in the National issue of USA Today.
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