Healthgrades® Clinical Achievements
- Five-Star Recipient for Vaginal Delivery in 2017
- Five-Star Recipient for C-Section Delivery in 2017
C-Section Delivery
For the 2017 Women’s Care Report, Healthgrades compared hospitals with statistically better than expected performance (5-stars), as a group, to those with statistically worse than expected performance (1-star), as a group, and found: From 2013-2015, patients having a C-Section Delivery in hospitals with 5- stars have, on average:
- 66.0% lower risk of experiencing a complication while in the hospital than if they were treated by hospitals with 1-star.*
From 2013-2015, patients having a C-Section Delivery in hospitals receiving 1- star are, on average:
- 2.9 times more likely to experience one or more complications than if they were treated in hospitals with 5-stars.*
Vaginal Delivery
For the 2017 Women’s Care Report, Healthgrades compared hospitals with statistically better than expected performance (5-stars), as a group, to those with statistically worse than expected performance (1-star), as a group, and found: From 2013-2015, patients having a Vaginal Delivery in hospitals with 5- stars have, on average:
- 54.9% lower risk of experiencing a complication while in the hospital than if they were treated by hospitals with 1-star.*
From 2013-2015, patients having a Vaginal Delivery in hospitals receiving 1-star are, on average:
- 2.2 times more likely to experience one or more complications than if they were treated in hospitals with 5-stars.*
*Statistics are based on Healthgrades analysis of All-Payer data for years 2013 through 2015 and represent 3- year estimates for patients in 17 states for which all payer data was made available. (See 2017 Healthgrades Women’s Care Rating Methodology for more details)