Kaiser Roseville Named “Top Hospital” by National Group

By Kaiser Permanente

and the South Sacramento medical center were named a top hospital by a national group, Kaiser Permanente announced today.

Both centers were named 2011 Leapfrog Top Hospitals, an honor that rewards hospitals for outstanding success in such areas as using electronic health records to reduce medication and other errors, lowering infection rates, maintaining appropriate physician and nursing staffing, and other measures of safety and efficiency.

They were chosen from a field of nearly 1,200 hospitals around the country surveyed this year.

A total of 10 Kaiser Permanente hospitals in Northern California, and eight in Southern California, received the honor Tuesday, which means that 18 of this year’s 65 Top Hospitals in the U.S. are Kaiser Permanente facilities in California.

This is the second year in a row that Roseville Medical Center has been named a Top Leapfrog Hospital. Sacramento Medical Center was a Top Leapfrog Hospital in 2009.

“We are extremely pleased that Roseville Medical Center continues to be recognized by independent organizations for the dedicated work performed on a daily basis by our physicians, nurses and staff members who are leading the way to improve patients’ lives,” said Edward S. Glavis, area manager and senior vice president, Roseville.

“Being named a Top Leapfrog Hospital demonstrates that our team of highly skilled physicians and staff put quality and safety at the forefront of patient care at our South Sacramento Medical Center,” said Patricia Rodriguez, area manager and senior vice president, South Sacramento. “Our model for patient-centered care, and the major expansion we recently completed, put us in a unique position to deliver optimal health-care in South Sacramento County.”

The other Kaiser Permanente Northern California’s Top Hospitals in 2011 are:

• Vacaville
• Antioch
• Walnut Creek
• Oakland
• Richmond
• San Francisco
• South San Francisco
• San Jose

 “Kaiser Permanente is consistently recognized by several independent third-party organizations for providing high-quality health care, and this latest honor from Leapfrog is further testament that our physicians, nurses and staff members are consistently delivering personalized, coordinated and technologically advanced care that is improving the health and well-being of our patients and the communities we serve,” said Gregory A. Adams, president of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan/Hospitals, Inc., in Northern California.

The 18 honored Kaiser Permanente hospitals were all in the “urban” category, and comprised more than a third of the 52 top urban hospitals listed nationally. The other categories surveyed were children’s hospitals (10 honored nationally) and rural hospitals (three nationally).

“The physicians, nurses and staff of Kaiser Permanente consistently deliver outstanding quality care and service that is personalized, technologically advanced and closely coordinated across all disciplines—primary care, specialty care, outpatient care and inpatient care,” said Robert Pearl, MD, executive director and CEO of The Permanente Medical Group. “Our excellent ratings from Leapfrog and other third-party organizations reflect the excellence and superiority of our integrated model for medical care, which enables our medical group, hospitals and health plan to work together on behalf of our patients to achieve the highest quality outcomes.” 

The Leapfrog Group is a coalition of public and private purchasers of employee health coverage founded a decade ago to work for improvements in health care safety, quality and affordability.