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ONE OF AMERICA'S BEST

Ocala Regional Medical Center and West Marion Community Hospital's superior clinical performance ranks them among America’s 50 Best Hospitals, according to HealthGrades, the nation’s leading independent healthcare ratings company.

The HealthGrades America’s 50 Best Hospitals designation is the only national hospital quality rating based solely on clinical outcomes, recognizing hospitals that have demonstrated superior clinical quality over an eight-year time period. HealthGrades analyzed tens of millions of Medicare patient records from 1999-2006 to identify this elite group of world class facilities. These hospitals have achieved higher survival rates and lower complication rates, not in just one or two clinical specialties, but across 27 different medical procedures and diagnoses, from cardiac care to orthopedic surgery, consistently ranking among the top five percent in the nation for overall clinical outcomes.

“Quality patient care is our top priority”, says H. Rex Etheredge, president and CEO, of Ocala Regional Medical Center/West Marion Community Hospital. “We are proud to be designated as one of America’s 50 Best Hospitals for 2008 by HealthGrades. This recognition from an objective source validates the outstanding quality of care our physicians and staff deliver to our patients year after year.”

The recipients of HealthGrades America’s 50 Best Hospitals were selected by identifying those hospitals that have also received the HealthGrades Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence^TM the most consecutive times from 2008 and previous years. Ocala Regional Medical Center and West Marion Community Hospital have received this prestigious national quality award from HealthGrades for the last six years, 2003-2008.

In its most recent clinical study, issued on January 31, HealthGrades analyzed tens of millions of Medicare patient records from 4,971 hospitals over a three-year period (2004-06).

HealthGrades found that patients admitted to Distinguished Hospitals are, on average, 27 percent more likely to survive and five percent less likely to have a major complication. HealthGrades also estimates that if all patients were treated at Distinguished Hospitals, 171,424 lives could have been saved and 9,671 post-operative complications could have been avoided during the three years studied. This is consistent with Distinguished Hospital studies conducted in previous years.

For more information on these awards and what they mean to the patients of Ocala Regional and West Marion, please visit www.healthgrades.com

Other awards that the hospitals have received are:

Clinical Excellence Award – Among the top 5% with only 270 recipients nationally
Distinguished Hospital Award – For Patient Safety (along with Clinical Excellence) among the top 1% with only 80 dual recipients nationally
Bariatric Surgery Excellence Award – Among the top 5%; five-star rated
Coronary Intervention Award – Among the top 10% for both cardiology services and coronary intervention procedures; five-star rated.
Gastrointestinal Surgery Excellence Award - Among top 5%; five-star rated
General Surgery Excellence Award – Among top 5%; five-star rated
Pulmonary Care Excellence Award – Among top 5% in the nation for overall pulmonary services
Spine Surgery Excellence Award – Five-star rated in both spine surgery and stroke treatment

ORMC/WMCH are accredited by the Joint Commission. Concerns about patient care or safety in the hospitals may be registered through the Joint Commission by either calling 1-800-994-6610, or emailing complaint@JCAHO.org.