AtlantiCare Tops Healthgrades 2024 Awards: Wins Outpatient Orthopedic Surgery Excellence and Secures Spot in America's 50 Best
March 5, 2024
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Emily Paul
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AtlantiCare Named Among Top 5% in the Country for Outpatient Orthopedic Surgery
[Egg Harbor Township, NJ] – March 5, 2024 – As part of its ongoing quest to bring high quality care to the region, AtlantiCare announced today that it has been recognized as one of America’s 50 Best Hospitals for Outpatient Orthopedic Surgery and is the recipient of a 2024 Outpatient Orthopedic Surgery Excellence Award™ by Healthgrades, the leading resource consumers use to find a hospital or doctor. This achievement, along with numerous other accolades from Healthgrades for orthopedics, cardiology and prostate surgery, reflects the organization’s dedication to clinical excellence and distinguishes AtlantiCare as one of the nation’s leading hospitals for these services.
"We are profoundly honored to receive these prestigious Healthgrades awards which reflect AtlantiCare's unwavering commitment to providing the best to our patients,” said Michael J. Charlton, President and CEO, AtlantiCare. “These recognitions underscore our team's dedication to providing the highest quality of care and innovation. It's a testament to the expertise of our staff, and it reinforces our commitment to building healthy communities.”
To identify the top-performing hospitals for outpatient orthopedic surgery, Healthgrades analyzed patient outcomes at short-term acute care facilities nationwide that offer critical orthopedic procedures in an outpatient environment, including back & neck surgery, knee replacement, hip replacement, and rotator cuff surgery. Healthgrades’ analysis found that patients treated at hospitals that have been recognized for excellence in outpatient orthopedic surgery have a demonstrably better chance at a smooth recovery than those treated at hospitals that were not recognized by Healthgrades. In fact, between 2020 and 2022, patients treated at hospitals receiving these awards had, on average, a 39.7% lower risk of experiencing a complication while in the hospital than if they were treated at hospitals that did not receive the award.*
“AtlantiCare exemplifies what it means to be a leader in outpatient orthopedics by delivering consistently superior outcomes across key outpatient procedures,” said Brad Bowman, MD, Chief Medical Officer and head of Data Science at Healthgrades. “Patients having outpatient orthopedic surgery at AtlantiCare should feel confident in their decision to seek care from a facility with top marks in their procedure.”
As outpatient surgical volumes continue to grow, Healthgrades is proud to offer the industry’s only outcomes-based outpatient ratings to help patients identify the best care for their needs. Consumers can visit Healthgrades.com to learn more about how Healthgrades measures hospital quality.
*Statistics are based on Healthgrades analysis of SAF data for years 2020 through 2022 and represent three-year estimates for Medicare patients only. For more information on how Healthgrades identifies the nation’s top hospitals for outpatient orthopedic surgery, see the 2024 Outpatient Specialty Excellence Awards and Ratings Methodology.
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About AtlantiCare
AtlantiCare is an award winning integrated healthcare system based in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, whose team of more than 6,500 serves the community in over 100 locations in Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May and Ocean counties of southern New Jersey. Committed to an innovative approach to providing best in the industry care, AtlantiCare’s vision of building healthy communities drives its mission of making a difference in health and healing, one person at a time. Learn more at atlanticare.org or 1-888-569-1000.
About Healthgrades
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