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The INDEPENDENT, December 20, 2000
Providence St. Vincent makes list of 100 top orthopedic hospitals
Providence St. Vincent med
ical Center has been named
one of the nation’s top 100 hos
pitals for orthopedic services
by the HCIA-Sachs Institute
and the Human Motion Insti
tute. Providence St. Vincent is
the only hospital in Portland
and one of a handful in the
state to rank as a national
benchmark in 2000.
The study, “100 Top Hospi
tals: Orthopedic Benchmarks
for Success,” identifies top
United States hospitals that cate high-quality outcomes and
have established benchmark efficient management of ortho
performance in clinical services pedic care. The criteria include:
and procedures that represent mortality index, risk-adjusted
high risk to patients, high cost for severity of illness; complica
to payers and high volume in tions index, risk-adjusted for
hospitals. The list of top ortho severity of illness; count of
pedic hospitals was published unique patients receiving or
in the Nov. 27, 2000 issue of thopedic services; average
length of stay at the hospital,
Modern Healthcare magazine.
To quality for the award, adjusted for illness; cost per
hospitals had to have consis patient, adjusted for illness
tently
good
performance severity and local wage differ
across six measures that indi- ences; and percentage of pa-
OSP w ill enforce sanctions against drunk driving
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larly deadly as seven of the 21
fatalities occurred during that
time.
Enforcement efforts and
awareness campaigns are part
of the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration’s You
Drink & Drive. You Lose, cam
paign, created to help reach
the national goal of reducing al
cohol-related traffic fatalities to
no more than 11,000 a year by
2005. The campaign targets
high-risk populations such as
21- to 34-year-olds, those with
a high blood alcohol content,
repeat offenders, and under
age, 15- to 20-year-old drinkers.
“The greatest tragedy of im
paired driving is that it is entire
ly preventable,” said Captain
Spirup. ‘There are several op
tions available that we encour
age the public to consider in
stead of putting themselves in
a position of being involved in a
traffic crash, being arrested,
and facing sanctions such as
fines, license suspension, jail
or community service as pre
scribed by local courts.”
The Oregon State Police
and Oregon Department of
Transportation suggest the fol
lowing:
• Designate a sober driver
before you go out.
• Call a taxicab or Safe Ride
program.
• Consider non-alcoholic al
ternatives as part of your holi-
tients who came from and were
discharged to home.
According to the HCIA-
Sachs Institute, the nation’s top
100 orthopedic hospitals not
only produce better patient out
comes than their peers, but are
approximately 20 percent more
likely to discharge elderly pa
tients home after hospital stays
rather than institutionalize
them -an important goal of
high-quality treatment.
The study results are avail
able on the web at
http://
www. 100TopHospitals.com.
day celebrations.
• Arrange to spend the night
where you are going to be
drinking.
The Oregon State Police
strongly encourages the use of
our toll free number 1-800-24-
DRUNK (1-800-243-7865) or
9-1-1 to report anyone you sus
pect of being an impaired driv
er. Providing a description of
the vehicle, license plate infor
mation, location and direction
of travel will improve the
chances that a police officer
will be able to locate and re
move the impaired driver from
our roadways.
For more information, check
out NHTSA’s web site at
<www.nhtsa.dot.gov.>
The HCIA-Sachs Institute is
the research and education di
vision of HCIA-Sachs, a lead
ing health care information
content company. The Human
Motion Institute is an interna
tional orthopedic product line
development company.
Providence St. Vincent is
part of Providence Health Sys
tem.
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