Ohio State Medical Center Named Among Top 10 Academic Medical Centers for Quality Care

The Ohio State University Medical Center is one of 10 academic medical centers in the nation delivering the highest quality of care based on results of a study commissioned by the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC).

"Academic medical centers are increasingly challenged to be the nation's leaders for quality care," said Dr. Steven Gabbe, CEO of OSU Medical Center.  "Based on analyses during 2010, our inpatient mortality rate was 30 percent better than the national average for the types of patients we treat. That means many patients were sent home to their families who in all probability would not have survived had they been treated at most other hospitals in the country."

The UHC survey included more than 100 academic medical centers and health systems in the United States.  Using the Institute of Medicine's six domains of health care quality-- mortality, effectiveness, safety, equity, patient centeredness and efficiency -- the study identifies and evaluates the structures and processes associated with high performance in quality and safety across a broad spectrum of patient care activity.

For more information, see the release from the OSU Medical Center:
http://www.medicalcenter.osu.edu/mediaroom/releases/Pages/Ohio-State-Named-Among-Top-10-in-Nation-for-Quality-Care-.aspx