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Study: Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis No. 1 in Tennessee

According to the Tenth Annual HealthGrades Hospital Quality in America Study, Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis ranks best in Tennessee for cardiac surgery, stroke care and gastrointestinal surgery & procedures. The study, the largest of its kind, analyzed patient outcomes at virtually all of the nation's 5,000 hospitals over the years 2004, 2005 and 2006.

The study also found that Baptist Memphis is:

Recipient of the 2008 HealthGrades Cardiac Surgery Excellence Award™
Recipient of the 2008 HealthGrades GI Care Excellence Award™
Recipient of the 2008 HealthGrades Stroke Care Excellence Award™
Ranked Among the Top 5% in the Nation for Cardiac Surgery
Ranked Among the Top 5% in the Nation for Treatment of Stroke
Ranked Among the Top 5% in the Nation for Overall GI Care
Five-Star Rated for Cardiac Surgery
Five-Star Rated for Coronary Bypass Surgery
Five-Star Rated for Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation
Five-Star Rated for the Treatment of Stroke
Five-Star Rated for Overall GI Services
Five-Star Rated for GI Surgery & Procedures
Five-Star Rated for the Treatment of Bowel Obstruction
Five-Star Rated for Cholecystectomy
Five-Star Rated for the Treatment of GI Bleed
Five-Star Rated for the Treatment of Pancreatitis
Five-Star Rated for Community Acquired Pneumonia
Five-Star Rated for Carotid Endarterectomy
Five-Star Rated for Treatment of Sepsis
Five-Star Rated for Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism
Five-Star Rated for Treatment of Respiratory Failure

The 2008 HealthGrades ratings for all hospitals nationwide are available, free of charge, on the organization’s award-winning consumer Web site, located at www.healthgrades.com. More than three million individuals and employees of some of the nation’s largest employers and health plans visit HealthGrades each month to access quality information about hospitals, nursing homes and physicians. HealthGrades also provides consumers and payers with detailed assessments of hospitals’ patient-safety outcomes, based on indicators developed by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

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