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DENVER, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- West Palm Beach, Fla., leads the nation with six top-performing hospitals, followed by Chicago and Cleveland with four, a ranking from HealthGrades says.
HealthGrades, an independent healthcare ratings organization, lists America's 50 Best Hospitals for 2011, based on an analysis of more than 140 million Medicare patient records.
To be listed in the 50 best hospitals, hospitals must have had risk-adjusted mortality and complication rates that were in the top 5 percent in the nation for the most consecutive years. Eight-six percent of the top hospitals are not-for-profit or local government entities.
On average, patients treated at these hospitals had a nearly 30 percent lower risk of death and 3 percent lower rate of complications. If all U.S. hospitals had performed at this elite level, more than 550,000 Medicare deaths could have been prevented from 1999 to 2009, the HealthGrades study says.
Also included in the analysis at www.HealthGrades.com are procedure-by-procedure comparisons of America's 50 Best Hospitals and all other ranked hospitals.
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