Rockford Health

Hospital Among Top 5 Percent for Patient Safety

Rockford Memorial Hospital was identified as a recipient of the 2009 HealthGrades Patient Safety Excellence Award™. The top five percent of all hospitals in the U.S. were recognized with this award in a report by the leading independent healthcare ratings organization.

Rockford Memorial Hospital is the only hospital in the city of Rockford to receive the award, and has been recognized for patient safety excellence on a national basis by HealthGrades during the past three consecutive years (2007-2009).

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.