PHC4 Hospital Performance Report
Thursday, September 24, 2009
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL/LANCASTER NEW ERA
LANCASTER, PA
09/24/2009
BY CINDY STAUFFER
Staff Writer
Local hospitals saw more deaths than expected for patients suffering from stroke, amputations due to diabetes, blood infections and hip fracture surgery in 2007-08, according to a new state report.
But the hospitals also had lower-than-expected readmission rates for kidney failure, pneumonia, congestive heart failure and other categories in the 31 common illnesses and procedures included in the Hospital Performance Report, released Wednesday by the state Health Care Cost Containment Council.
A hospital official said some of the higher death rates were due to sick, elderly patients choosing not to have aggressive resuscitation efforts made on their behalf.
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