CMS’ highest ranking focuses on over 40 quality measures
Vermont Business Magazine The University of Vermont Medical Center, the anchor academic hospital for the UVM Health Network, has again earned a 5-star quality rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which announced its annual hospital ratings for 2022 in late July.
The ratings, found on Medicare’s Care Compare website, rate hospitals based on more than 40 quality measures over five categories: safety of care, readmissions after treatment of common conditions, patient experience, mortality, and timely and effective care. CMS reviewed data from the 2021 calendar year for the ranking determination.
Quality measures demonstrated that at UVM Medical Center:
- Cost the same or below national averages for benchmark procedures
- Has a lower Medicare spending per beneficiary than state and national averages
- Typically has lower rates of hospital-related complications than national benchmarks.
“This is absolutely a reflection of all our employees’ hard work, care, and engagement over a tumultuous period of time,” said Patrick Bender, MD, Chief Quality officer of UVM Medical Center. “It recognizes the dedication of our physicians, nurses and staff who deliver exceptional care each and every day.”
UVM Medical Center is one of only 429 hospitals nationwide to earn the top rating from CMS, representing just 13.8 percent of the 3,093 hospitals across the country rated by the federal agency. This is the second year in a row UVM Medical Center has received the highest ranking. Four hospitals in Vermont received 5 stars in 2022 – Central Vermont Medical Center, a UVM Health Network hospital – was also among those receiving the highest ranking.
The five star rating comes as U.S. News & World Report recently named UVM Medical Center as the top hospital in Vermont, and it was recognized as “high performing” in ten types of care and conditions.
About the University of Vermont Medical Center
The University of Vermont Medical Center is a 447-bed tertiary care regional referral center providing advanced care to approximately 1 million residents in Vermont and northern New York. Together with our partners at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont and the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, we are Vermont’s academic medical center. The University of Vermont Medical Center also serves as a community hospital for approximately 150,000 residents in Chittenden and Grand Isle counties.
The University of Vermont Medical Center is a member of The University of Vermont Health Network, an integrated system established to deliver high quality academic medicine to every community we serve.
For more information visit www.UVMHealth.org/MedCenter
8.16.2022 BURLINGTON, Vt. – The University of Vermont Medical Center
