Miriam among group with lowest heart attack deaths

PROVIDENCE – The Miriam Hospital reported recently that Becker’s Hospital Review named it as one of 53 hospitals across the country with the lowest heart attack mortality rates. It is the only hospital in Rhode Island to have a 30-day post-myocardial infarction or heart attack mortality rate significantly lower than the national average, placing it among a total of 30 hospitals in the United States with the lowest post-MI mortality. The rankings are based on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data on Medicare patients from July 2011 through June 2014, according to the hospital.
“The Miriam Hospital is a patient-centric hospital that cares,” Dr. Douglas Burtt, inpatient director, The Cardiovascular Institute at Rhode Island, The Miriam and Newport hospitals, and director, coronary care units, Rhode Island and The Miriam hospitals, said in a statement. “It is our team’s level of experience and compassion that helps to keep us in the lowest 10 percent of U.S. hospitals for post [percutaneous coronary intervention or angioplasty] and MI mortality rates. Time is muscle.”
According to Becker’s, a leading business publication for the health care industry, all the hospitals recognized have a 30-day mortality rate from heart attack of 11.7 percent or less – with the national average at 14.2 percent. The Miriam Hospital’s rate is 11.4 percent, about 20 percent lower than the national average. The data used for the rankings is the most recent available from the CMS Hospital Compare registry, part of the CMS Hospital Quality Initiative, which uses tools to help support quality-of-care improvements in hospitals.

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