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| Lake Pointe Medical Center Named the Best Value Hospital in Texas |
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ROWLETT, TX (October 1, 2008) – Lake Pointe Medical Center was ranked as the 28th Best Value Hospital in the United States as part of the Hospital Value Index™ 100 Best Value Hospital list. Lake Pointe was the only facility in Texas to make the Top 100 list. Lake Pointe Medical Center was also listed as a Best Kept Secret Hospital – recognizing hospitals that offer high value but are not as well known as other hospitals in their market.
“This recent recognition is testament to the great care provided at Lake Pointe,” said Carolyn Jackson, CEO of Lake Pointe Medical Center. “The dedication of our employees and medical staff help to ensure that we consistently deliver high-quality healthcare that is efficient and cost effective.”
The Data Advantage Hospital Value Index™ is a comprehensive index measuring the relative value of care that hospitals provide to patients. The Hospital Value Index™ analyzed more than 1,500 general acute-care hospitals in America’s 100 largest cities, serving approximately 180 million consumers, to offer the most comprehensive picture of a hospital’s value to date by measuring its success in four key areas:
• Quality of its care, including core processes and patient safety;
• Efficiency of its care and affordability, including the prices it charges;
• Experience encountered by its patients as measured by patient satisfaction; and
• Comprehensive reputation of a hospital as measured by local public perception.
Data Advantage uses existing data to calculate its index. Much of it comes from Medicare, which tracks hospital operations beyond just Medicare patients.
• Quality accounts for 45% of a hospital’s overall score. Data Advantage looks at the federal government’s public reporting, key patient-safety measures, and whether the hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission or included in the LeapFrog survey.
• Affordability and efficiency count for another 45%. Data Advantage measures affordability by looking at the hospital’s list prices for 103 different outpatient services, ranging from chest X-rays to diagnostic colonoscopies. Gauging efficiency is done by looking at the cost side of the equation — how much the hospital actually spent (using data reported to Medicare) to treat patients with certain diagnoses, adjusted for severity.
• Patient satisfaction makes up the final 10%. Data Advantage uses survey data from discharged patients, which were recently made public through Medicare. It concentrates on two questions: rating the hospital from 0 to 10, and whether the patient would recommend the facility to family and friends.
Lake Pointe’s performance on the first three metrics – quality, affordability and efficiency, and patient satisfaction – resulted in their #28 ranking on the Hospital Value IndexTM 100 Best Value Hospital list, the only hospital in Texas to make the Top 100 list. The fourth metric – hospital reputation in the community – was measured by local public perception and resulted in Lake Pointe being named a Best Kept Secret Hospital.
More information on the results can be found at www.HospitalValueIndex.com.
ABOUT LAKE POINTE MEDICAL CENTER
Lake Pointe Medical Center, a part of Tenet Healthcare Corporation, is a 112-bed acute care hospital located at 6800 Scenic Drive in Rowlett. Lake Pointe Medical Center has been serving the residents of Rockwall, Rowlett, Royse City and the surrounding communities since 1987. The hospital provides a wide spectrum of medical services, including an emergency department with Fast Track services, a 14-bed intensive care unit, women's services, a Level II Neonatal Nursery, diagnostic imaging, eight operating rooms and telemetry. Lake Pointe Medical Center also provides a number of specialty services, including cardiology and cardiac rehabilitation, vascular surgery, neurosurgery, neurology, orthopedics, gastroenterology, oncology, infectious disease, general surgery, spine surgery, thoracic surgery, ear nose and throat, pulmonary medicine, urology, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics and neonatal services. Lake Pointe also offers wound care, sleep medicine, physical, occupational and speech therapy as well as pulmonary rehabilitation. The Lake Pointe Imaging Centers in Forney and Rockwall provide extended imaging services to the community. The hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the nation’s oldest and largest hospital accreditation agency, licensed by the state of Texas and certified for participation in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. To learn more about Lake Pointe Medical Center, visit www.lakepointemedical.com.
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