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Arrowhead Hospital Best Acute Care Hospital Award Recipient

    Total Benchmark Solution, LLC. (TBS) is proud to announce that Arrowhead Hospital in Glendale, Arizona, is a recipient of the Total Benchmark Solution Best Acute Care Hospitals Award, based upon quality measure data provided by U.S. healthcare organizations to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for the Annual 2005 time period.

    “Using Total Benchmark Solutions proprietary Quality Benchmark Solution tools, TBS has analyzed all the relevant CMS Quality Measures and found that Arrowhead Hospital has clearly demonstrated its capabilities as a top-quality performing hospital in the areas of Heart Attack, Heart Failure and Pneumonia Care,” said Bradley Petersen, TBS Chairman and Founder. “Arrowhead Hospital’s rankings show that they are taking the right steps towards improving the quality of care in Glendale and throughout Arizona,” added Petersen. Only two hospitals in the State of Arizona received this distinction, Arrowhead Hospital and Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale.

    The CMS Quality Initiative aims include the desire to refine and standardize hospital data, data transmission, and performance measures in order to construct a single robust, prioritized and standard quality measure set for hospitals. The ultimate goal is that all private and public purchasers, oversight and accrediting entities, payers and providers of hospital care use the same measures in their public reporting activities.
TBS loaded the data obtained from CMS into its proprietary Quality Benchmark Solution application to provide the rankings of hospitals within various peer groups. TBS determined the Best Acute Care Hospitals by benchmarking and ranking all hospitals nationwide on 18 core measures for the data provided for the January 2005 to December 2005 timeframe.

    “It is tremendous news to hear that Arrowhead Hospital is among the nation’s best acute care hospitals. I believe that our staff’s commitment to quality care is unparalleled in this region,” said Jon Bartlett, CEO of Arrowhead Hospital. “We’re pleased that there are now several resources that allow the public to objectively analyze different quality measures, and we encourage anyone who makes healthcare decisions for his/her family or business to take advantage of the information that is available,” further stated Bartlett.

    Arrowhead Hospital is located at 18701 N. 67th Avenue, in Glendale, AZ and Arrowhead is an Accredited Chest Pain Center, a Primary Stoke Check Center, as well as most other major specialties.