Do Paramount Hospitals
Make the Grade?
From time to time, the news reports scores for
hospitals. Lists and “grades” can be found on the
Web, too. Have you wondered how well your local
hospital does? We want you to know, so we looked
at the same data that is given to the public. Here is
what we found out.
Some states, such as Michigan, require hospitals to work toward goals set by the national Leapfrog GroupTM. When Paramount hospitals meet those goals, we will put a frog symbol next to their name in the directory.
Most Paramount hospitals submit data for the national Hospital Compare Web site. The data has to do with heart attacks, heart failure, pneumonia and infection after surgery. We compared all our hospitals with one another and with national averages for 20 rates. The result is that most Paramount hospitals do very well (90 percent or better) in at least one of these areas, and several do very well in more than one area.
The following are charts of the relative performance of Paramount critical access and acute care hospitals. Numbers are in blue when they are above the comparison value (the highest of the state, national and peer group averages).
Here are abbreviations used in the charts:
8 AMI = eight measures of care for heart attack
4 CHF = four measures of care for chronic heart failure
6 PNM = six measures of care for pneumonia
2 SIP = two measures for surgical infection prevention
n/a = not available
* Hospital contracted only for Paramount Advantage™
** ProMedica Health System–owned/–affiliated hospital
Source: “Hospital Compare” data published by the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services, last updated September 8, 2006
| Critical Access Hospitals Averaged from all reported measures | County | Average 8 AMI | Average 4 CHF | Average 6 PNM | Average 2 SIP | Overall Weighted Average |
| Galion Community Hospital | Crawford | 100% | 94% | 92% | 79% | 91% |
| Hardin Memorial Hospital* | Hardin | 89% | 82% | 78% | n/a | 83% |
| Herrick Medical Center** | Lenawee | 82% | 76% | 90% | n/a | 83% |
| Fostoria Hospital** | Seneca | 81% | 79% | 87% | n/a | 82% |
| Henry County Hospital | Henry | 86% | 81% | 80% | n/a | 82% |
| H.B. Magruder Hospital | Ottawa | n/a | 94% | 82% | 65% | 80% |
| Wyandot Memorial Hospital* | Wyandot | 75% | 64% | 96% | 69% | 76% |
| Bucyrus Community Hospital | Crawford | 75% | 85% | 84% | 58% | 75% |
| Paulding County Hospital | Paulding | 50% | 51% | 77% | n/a | 59% |
| Defiance Regional Medical Center* | Defiance | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0% |
| Acute Care Hospitals
Averaged from measures where n>25 | County | Average 8 AMI | Average 4 CHF | Average 6 PNM | Average 2 SIP | Overall Weighted Average |
| St. Rita’s Medical Center* | Allen | 96% | 95% | 88% | n/a | 93% |
| Lima Memorial Hospital** | Allen | 96% | 91% | 87% | n/a | 91% |
| Medical University of Ohio Hospitals | Lucas | 95% | 90% | 74% | n/a | 86% |
| Flower Hospital** | Lucas | 81% | 87% | 84% | n/a | 86% |
| Emma L. Bixby Medical Center** | Lenawee | 91% | 77% | 88% | n/a | 85% |
| Mercy Memorial Hospital (Monroe) | Monroe | 95% | 81% | 86% | 79% | 85% |
| Samaritan Regional Health System | Ashland | 100% | 67% | 82% | n/a | 83% |
| Firelands Regional Medical Center | Erie | 94% | 84% | 75% | 79% | 83% |
| Mercer County Community Hospital* | Mercer | n/a | 82% | 83% | n/a | 82% |
| Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers — Bryan | Williams | 95% | 71% | 80% | n/a | 82% |
| Blanchard Valley Regional Health Center — Findlay | Hancock | 93% | 85% | 86% | 64% | 82% |
| Bay Park Community Hospital** | Lucas | 95% | 65% | 85% | n/a | 81% |
| MedCentral Health System — Mansfield | Richland | 91% | 76% | 76% | n/a | 81% |
| Fisher-Titus Medical Center | Huron | 99% | 80% | 82% | 62% | 80% |
| The Toledo Hospital** | Lucas | 90% | 73% | 77% | n/a | 80% |
| Wood County Hospital | Wood | n/a | 78% | 75% | n/a | 77% |
| Van Wert County Hospital* | Van Wert | n/a | 84% | 83% | 50% | 72% |
| Bellevue Hospital | Sandusky | n/a | 71% | 71% | n/a | 71% |
| Joint Township District Memorial Hospital* | Auglaize | 81% | 75% | 79% | 47% | 71% |
| Memorial Hospital (Fremont)* | Sandusky | n/a | 77% | 74% | 60% | 70% |
| Comparison Values | AMI | CHF | PNM | SIP |
| National average | 76% | 72% | 77% | 71% |
| Top national decile (for reference only) | 95% | 97% | 94% | 94% |
| Ohio average (West and South) | 80% | 79% | 80% | 67% |
| Michigan average | 78% | 79% | 81% | 79% |
| Peer group average (all in-Plan Paramount hospitals) | 93% | 80% | 82% | 64% |
| ProMedica hospitals average | 92% | 76% | 85% | n/a |
| Non-ProMedica hospitals average | 94% | 81% | 81% | 64% |
| Acute care hospital average | 93% | 79% | 81% | 63% |
| Critical access hospital average (denominator 25 and up) | n/a | 80% | 85% | 67% |
| Critical access hospital average (any denominator) | 80% | 78% | 85% | 67% |