KDMC ranked best for Overall Hospital Care, numerous other categories for 2016

King’s Daughters Medical Center has been ranked No. 1 in the region for 2016 for medical excellence in several areas by CareChex, a division of Comparion® Medical Analytics. These areas include:

• Overall Hospital Care, including Overall Medical Care and Overall Surgical Care
• Cancer Care
• Cardiac Care, including Major Cardiac Surgery, Coronary Bypass Surgery, Heart Attack Treatment and Heart Failure Treatment
• Pulmonary Care

The region surveyed includes hospitals in western West Virginia, northeastern Kentucky, and southern Ohio.

On a national level, King’s Daughters also was recognized as among the Top 100 in the nation for medical excellence in:

• Overall Hospital Care, including Overall Medical Care and Overall Surgical Care
• Cardiac Care, including Major Cardiac Surgery, Coronary Bypass Surgery and Heart Failure Treatment
• Pulmonary Care

“We believe CareChex provides the most statistically accurate ratings of hospital quality available,” said Richard Ford, M.D., medical staff president and chief medical officer, Procedural/Surgical Services. “Many evaluation services look at only one aspect of care, such as mortality or complication rates,” he said.

“CareChex’s methodology evaluates the three major components of medical quality – the process of care, outcomes of care and patient satisfaction and, as a result, provides a truer picture of a hospital’s quality,” Ford said.

CareChex® is a division of Comparion® Medical Analytics – one of the nation’s largest privately-held healthcare information services companies. CareChex provides clinical, financial, and patient satisfaction findings to consumers, providers and purchasers of U.S. medical care. Unlike other publicly available quality ratings, CareChex provides a composite evaluation of all components of medical quality including process of care, outcomes of care and patient experiences. For access to provider quality ratings, visit CareChex.com.