Hospital Among Top Five Percent Nationally for Patient Safety

Rockford Memorial Hospital has been named in an independent national research study as a recipient of the 2007 Distinguished Hospital Award for Patient SafetyTM, according to HealthGrades, the nation’s leading healthcare ratings company.

This distinction reflects Rockford Memorial’s performance among the top five percent of hospitals nationally for patient safety outcomes, according to HealthGrades. Rockford Memorial is the only recipient of this HealthGrades award in the Rockford area, and one of only 12 in the state of Illinois. Nationwide, only 242 hospitals out of nearly 5,000 received this recognition.

 

 

Quality

At Rockford Health System, we're working hard to create and sustain a culture of quality and patient safety across all of our entities and services. We live by the all-encompassing definition of quality published by the Institute of Medicine in its publication Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century.

To read more about our recent quality and patient safety initiatives, click here.

To learn more about awards Rockford Health System has recently received, click here.

  
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