Paramount is pleased to report that Defiance Regional Medical Center (DRMC) is now included in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Hospital Compare. This national database was used for the article "Do Paramount Hospitals Make the Grade?" in the previous issue of For Better Health. The overall weighted average for DRMC as of July 19, 2007, was 82 percent. Here is the relative performance of DRMC:

• Average for eight measures of care for heart attack: 90 percent
• Average for four measures of care for chronic heart failure: 73 percent
• Average for six measures of care for pneumonia: 84 percent
• Average for two measures for surgical infection prevention: 81 percent

DRMC is a member of ProMedica Health System and accessible to all Paramount members.