U.S. News & World Report designated a Northern Kentucky hospital as “High Performing” across a range of categories.
St. Elizabeth Edgewood, located at 1 Medical Village Dr., received recognition in 20 specialties and procedures in the latest U.S. News & World Report hospital rankings. The rankings are a national assessment of hospitals across the United States that evaluate how well institutions perform in various specialties, procedures, and conditions.
The hospital received high marks in cancer care, cardiology, diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology, geriatrics, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedics, pulmonology and lung surgery and urology. A separate recognition for maternity care earlier this year brought the total to 20 areas.
Dr. Latonya Brown, Vice President and Chief Physician Quality Officer for St. Elizabeth Healthcare, said the rankings highlight the organization’s commitment to achieving strong outcomes across the system.
“We invest in the best doctors, we invest in the latest and the greatest technology, we invest in our staff,” Brown said in a news release. “And I think that because we are committed to those things, we can then translate that into, quick identification of problems, expeditiously initiating interventions to deal with those problems, and then caring for those patients throughout those illnesses and seeing that they get back into doing what they love with the people they love.”
Furthermore, Brown highlighted several ongoing nursing initiatives aimed at improving the patient experience, including new programs targeting emergency department efficiency and patient interactions.
Brown said St. Elizabeth also places a strong emphasis on harm prevention and routinely sets internal quality and safety goals that exceed national benchmarks.
“I think the other thing that I’m especially proud of is that we care a lot about harm prevention, and we utilize evidence-based practices to try to decrease the number of harms that we see across the system,” she said. “I think that we sometimes set our goals a little bit higher than national goals, because we recognize that while we might not need them, we want to be doing whatever we can to keep the motivation there to consistently get better.”