Reston Hospital Center Receives 2023 Patient Safety Excellence Award

RESTON, VA — Reston Hospital Center was recently recognized by Healthgrades as a 2023 Patient Safety Excellence Award recipient, according to a release.

Healthgrades, which provides patients with scientifically accurate and comprehensive information about doctors and hospitals, noted that RHC ranked among the top 5 percent of all short-term acute care hospitals it evaluated for safety.

“Through our 2023 Patient Safety Excellence Awards, we seek to recognize hospitals that excel in providing top-quality care for their patients while preventing serious injuries during hospital stays,” said Brad Bowman, MD, chief medical officer and head of Data Science at Healthgrades, in a release. “We are proud to name Reston Hospital Center as a 2023 Patient Safety Excellence Award recipient and look forward to their continued efforts to make patient safety a top priority.”

A Healthgrades study conducted between 2018 and 2021 identified 164,592 potentially preventable safety events involving Medicare patients at U.S. hospitals. Of those events, four indicators accounted for 74 percent of all patient safety events: "hip fracture due to an in-hospital fall, collapsed lung resulting from a procedure/surgery, pressure or bed sores acquired in the hospital, and catheter-related bloodstream infections acquired in-hospital," according a release.

Hospitals recognized with a 2023 Patient Safety Excellence Award were, on average, according to the study:

• 61.4 percent less likely to experience an in-hospital fall resulting in hip fracture, than patients treated at non-recipient hospital;
• 52.7 percent less likely to experience a collapsed lung resulting from a procedure or surgery in or around the chest, than patients treated at non-recipient hospitals;
• 66.1 percent less likely to experience pressure sores or bed sores acquired in the hospital, than patients treated at non-recipient hospitals; and
• 67.3 percent less likely to experience catheter-related bloodstream infections acquired in the hospital, than patients treated at non-recipient hospitals.

“Reston Hospital has a longstanding daily focus on patient care and patient safety, including reducing number of unnecessary central lines and indwelling catheters, which contribute to central line associated blood stream infections (CLABSI) and catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI),” Dr. Carnell Cooper, RHC's chief medical officer, said in a release.

More information about how Healthgrades measures hospital quality is available online. An explanation about methodology Healthgrades used in its study can be found here.