Avera Heart Hospital achieves rare national ranking
Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota is one of 19 hospitals out of approximately 4,000 nationwide to achieve a double five-star rating.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the federal agency that administers the two programs, assigns two major star ratings: a summary star rating based on patient surveys and an overall hospital-quality star rating, which incorporates outcomes measures as well as patient-experience scores.
Currently, 188 hospitals have a five-star rating based on surveys, and 83 have a five-star rating based on the overall quality score.
Nineteen hospitals, including Avera Heart Hospital, have both.
Here is the complete list of double five-star hospitals.
- Arkansas Surgical Hospital (North Little Rock)
- Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota (Sioux Falls)
- GHS Patewood Memorial Hospital (Greenville, S.C.)
- Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
- Hill Country Memorial Hospital (Fredericksburg, Texas)
- Iowa Specialty Hospital-Belmond
- Marion Regional Medical Center (Hamilton, Ala.)
- Mayo Clinic Hospital (Phoenix)
- Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center (Jasper, Ind.)
- Nebraska Orthopaedic Hospital (Omaha)
- Northside Medical Center (Columbus, Ga.)
- Oklahoma Heart Hospital (Oklahoma City)
- Sauk Prairie Hospital (Prairie du Sac, Wis.)
- South County Hospital (Wakefield, R.I.)
- St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea (Mich.)
- Surgical Hospital at Southwoods (Youngstown, Ohio)
- Texas Orthopedic Hospital (Houston)
- Texas Spine and Joint Hospital (Tyler)
- UHHS Memorial Hospital of Geneva (Ohio)