St. Joseph Medical Center (Kansas City, Missouri)
| St. Joseph Medical Center | |
|---|---|
| Ascension Health | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Kansas City, Missouri, USA |
| Coordinates | 38°56′11″N 94°36′14″W / 38.93634°N 94.60394°WCoordinates: 38°56′11″N 94°36′14″W / 38.93634°N 94.60394°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Private |
| Funding | Non-profit |
| Hospital type | Community |
| Affiliated university | None |
| Services | |
| Beds | 310 |
| History | |
| Founded | October 15, 1874 |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.stjosephkc.com/ |
St. Joseph Medical Center is a 310-bed facility in Kansas City, Missouri, providing a wide range of acute care and outpatient services from a 24-hour emergency department to state-of-the-art cardiovascular care. St. Joseph has earned the Magnet designation from The American Nurses Credentialing Center for excellence in nursing services. The accredited Stroke Center at St. Joseph provides advanced treatments available at few centers in the Kansas City area and the Breast Center is a nationally recognized leader in breast MRI biopsy.
Hospital rating data
The HealthGrades website contains the latest quality data for St. Joseph Medical Center, as of 2015. For this rating section three different types of data from HealthGrades are presented: quality ratings for twenty-nine inpatient conditions and procedures, thirteen patient safety indicators, percentage of patients giving the hospital a 9 or 10 (the two highest possible ratings).
For inpatient conditions and procedures, there are three possible ratings: worse than expected, as expected, better than expected. For this hospital the data for this category is:
- Worse than expected - 8
- As expected - 20
- Better than expected - 1
For patient safety indicators, there are the same three possible ratings. For this hospital safety indicators were rated as:
- Worse than expected - 2
- As expected -10
- Better than expected - 1
Data for patients giving this hospital a 9 or 10 are:
- Patients rating this hospital as a 9 or 10 - 70%
- Patients rating hospitals as a 9 or 10 nationally - 69%[1]