All six Providence Health & Services, Southern California, hospitals earned top ratings for a range of specialties, including treatment of heart attack and for joint replacement and gastrointestinal surgeries.

Healthgrades, a leading online resource to help consumers choose physicians, hospitals and the best care for their needs, announced the results of its annual ratings Tuesday. Every year, Healthgrades evaluates hospital performance at nearly 4,500 hospitals nationwide for 33 of the most common inpatient procedures and conditions.

Here are some of the Providence 5-Star achievements across the Los Angeles Area:
* Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills for treatment of heart attack and stroke

* Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, for treatment of heart failure and for full hip and knee replacement surgeries

* Providence Tarzana Medical Center, treatment of heart failure and stroke

* Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, Burbank, for spinal fusion surgery and treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

* Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center Torrance for Coronary bypass heart attack and pacemaker and defibrillator procedures

* Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center San Pedro for treating hip fractures and for colo-rectal surgeries.

A full list of hospital ratings is available healthgrades.com and in the Healthgrades 2016 Report to the Nation.

The new report demonstrates how clinical performance continues to differ among hospitals both nationally and regionally. This variation in care has a significant impact on health outcomes. For example, from 2012 through 2014, if all hospitals as a group, performed similarly to hospitals receiving five stars as a group, on average 222,392 lives could potentially have been saved and 166,086 complications could potentially have been avoided. A 5-star rating indicates a hospital’s clinical outcomes are statistically significantly better than expected when treating the condition or performing the procedure being evaluated.

For its analysis, Healthgrades evaluated approximately 40 million Medicare inpatient records for nearly 4,500 short-term acute care hospitals nationwide, and assessed hospital performance relative to each of 33 common conditions and procedures. Healthgrades recognizes a hospital’s quality achievements for cohort-specific performance, specialty area performance, and overall clinical quality. Individual procedure or condition cohorts are designated as 5 star (statistically significantly better than expected), 3 star (not statistically different from expected), and 1 star (statistically significantly worse than expected) categories. The complete Healthgrades 2016 Report to the Nation with detailed cohort-specific outcomes data, hospital-specific quality achievements, and detailed study methodology, can be found at www.healthgrades.com/quality.

About Providence Health & Services

Providence Health & Services, Southern California, is a Catholic not-for-profit, mission-driven healthcare system. Providence Southern California operates six award-winning hospitals and a comprehensive, fully-integrated network of primary care clinics, urgent care centers, home care, TrinityCare and TrinityKids Care hospice as well as Providence High School. Providence is anchored locally by Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, Providence Tarzana Medical Center and Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Centers in Torrance and San Pedro. With more than 3,400 physicians, Providence provides coordinated primary and specialty care through an array of physician groups and individual providers including Providence Medical Institute and physician groups in the South Bay, the West Valley and Santa Clarita. Providence affiliate, Facey Medical Group, provides primary and specialized care in the San Fernando, Santa Clarita and San Gabriel valleys. For more information, visit California.providence.org.