HCA Florida West Hospital is honored to announce the hospital has been recognized with a 2024 Patient Safety Excellence Award™ from Healthgrades, a comprehensive database of ratings and comparisons for physicians, hospitals and healthcare providers.
HCA Florida West Hospital is among 31 HCA Florida hospitals recognized by Healthgrades this year for high-quality care and prevention of serious safety events during hospital stays.
“To receive this recognition eight years in a row means we are a hospital that can produce extraordinary results and can replicate those extraordinary results to achieve quality healthcare that is equal to the best hospitals in the nation,” said Gabe Bullaro, Chief Executive Officer of West Florida Hospital.
This year marks the 8th year in a row HCA Florida West Hospital has received the Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award™. Additionally, Healthgrades named HCA Florida West Hospital as being among the top 5% of hospitals in the nation for patient safety for 8 years in a row (2017-2024) and among the top 10% in the nation for patient safety for 8 years in a row (2017 – 2024).
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According to this year’s Healthgrades report, if all hospitals observed the same protocols as those in this category, they could have avoided more than 97,000 patient safety events between 2020 and 2022. The analysis revealed that patients treated at award recipient hospitals are significantly less likely to experience serious safety events compared to patients treated at non-recipient hospitals.
The 2024 Patient Safety Excellence Award™ was presented to the top 10% of hospitals in the nation based on an analysis of required data reporting in 13 patient safety measures. Read more about the methodology here. See the full list of HCA Florida hospitals and others recognized with 2024 Patient Safety Excellence Awards™here.
