Oroville Hospital earns place on ‘best hospitals’ list

OROVILLE » Oroville Hospital has been named one of Washington Monthly’s “Best Hospitals for America.”

According to Washington Monthly, the list came from collaboration with the Lown Institute, a nonpartisan health care think tank. The evaluation measures a hospital’s ability to provide quality care to patients as well as contributing to the “greater good “of the surrounding community. A total of 3,200 hospitals were evaluated nationally.

The rankings for looking at each institution use three main criteria:

• Patient outcomes: a hospital’s patient mortality, safety and satisfaction record;

• Civic leadership: the degree to which a hospital treats patients with the same income and other demographics as its surrounding community; how much it contributes in community benefit and how much it pays its senior executive compared to its frontline workers;

• Value of care: how much a hospital overuses low-value tests and procedures.

The publication then made an honor roll of 20 hospitals. Oroville Hospital was placed on this Top 20 list, ranked 20 of 20 nationwide.

“We are very pleased that our dedicated team at Oroville Hospital has received this national recognition,” Oroville Hospital President and CEO Robert J. Wentz said in a news release.

“This analytic approach credits hospitals for superior outcomes, safety, quality, efficiency and meeting the needs of the community it serves. These factors have been our focus at Oroville Hospital for many years. This high national ranking is the greatest recognition any hospital could ever receive and I am honored.”

To see all institutions on the publication’s list, it is available on Washington Monthly’s website.