Lancaster General
Hospital again named among America’s 50 Best Hospitals by Healthgrades
Feb.
10, 2022, Lancaster, PA -- Lancaster General Hospital (LGH), flagship facility for
Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, again earned distinction among
Healthgrades’ list of America’s
50 Best Hospitals
for 2022. The distinction places LGH in the top 1% of hospitals nationwide for
consistently providing clinical excellence across a broad spectrum of
conditions and procedures.
Healthgrades is an online resource
that helps connect patients with a health-care provider or hospital. LGH, which
was named to Healthgrades’ 50 Best Hospitals list in 2021, 2020 and 2019,
received multiple additional 2022 honors in cardiology surgery and care,
gastrointestinal surgery and care, stroke care, neurosciences, pulmonary care,
bariatric surgery, and critical care.
“Being recognized among the
nation’s 50 best hospitals for a fourth year in a row by Healthgrades is an
honor shared by all at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health,” said John J.
Herman, FACHE, CEO of Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health. “This honor is a testament to the
commitment of our physicians, clinicians and staff to delivering exceptional
care and ensuring patient safety.”
For the
2022 study period (Medicare Fiscal Years 2018-2020), Healthgrades analyzed the
performance of nearly 4,500 hospitals nationwide across 31 conditions and
procedures, including heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, respiratory
failure, sepsis and stroke.
Overall,
patients treated in hospitals named as one of Healthgrades’ America’s Best
Hospitals have, on average, a 27.8 percent lower risk of dying than if they
were treated in hospitals that did not receive this award. If all hospitals, as
a group, performed similarly to Healthgrades’ America’s Best Hospitals, 160,256
lives could potentially have been saved.
Chester
County Hospital, which is also part of Penn Medicine, also again earned the 50
Best Hospitals distinction for 2022.
For
more information about methodology used to determine Healthgrades’ Best
Hospitals, click
here.
