{"id":199587,"date":"2023-05-31T10:22:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T14:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=199587"},"modified":"2023-05-31T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T14:24:23","slug":"uconn-john-dempsey-hospital-recognized-for-medical-excellence-with-national-carechex-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2023\/05\/uconn-john-dempsey-hospital-recognized-for-medical-excellence-with-national-carechex-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn John Dempsey Hospital Recognized for Medical Excellence with National CareChex\u00ae Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UConn John Dempsey Hospital<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>has been awarded five national 2023 CareChex\u00ae Awards by Quantros for\u00a0medical excellence in coronary bypass surgery and neurological care. UConn\u2019s teaching hospital is honored by CareChex for its comprehensive quality in these two medical specialties.<\/p>\n<p>For 2023 CareChex ranks UConn John Dempsey Hospital as:<\/p>\n<p><strong>#1 Hospital in the Market <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coronary Bypass Surgery<\/li>\n<li>Neurological Care<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Top 10% Hospital in the Nation<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Neurological Care<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Top 10% Hospital in the Northeast<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Neurological Care<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Top 10% Hospital in the State<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Neurological Care<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to learn that UConn John Dempsey Hospital received the 2023 CareChex award as the number one hospital in our market for neurological care, and was in the top 10% in Connecticut, the northeast region and nationally,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/find-a-provider\/physician\/Greenfield-Lazar\">Dr. L. John Greenfield,<\/a> professor and chairman of the Department of Neurology at UConn Health. \u201cThis honor recognizes our continuous efforts to provide the highest quality state-of-the-art, patient-centered care, always focused on the comfort and safety of our patients.\u00a0 It is especially gratifying that this award was based on patient safety and outcomes data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, rather than subjective ratings or popularity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The excellence of our comprehensive management of coronary artery disease and results of coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) is a reflection of the exceptional team work at UConn John Dempsey Hospital,&#8221; says <a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/find-a-provider\/physician\/Sai%20Sudhakar-Chittoor\">Dr. Chittoor B. Sai Sudhakar<\/a>, chief of cardiothoracic surgery at UConn Health.<\/p>\n<p>CareChex Awards are powered by the Quantros Quality Outcomes Analytics Software. Unlike other publicly available award rankings\u00a0CareChex awards are based on comprehensive risk-adjustment methodology and do not include any self-reported data.<\/p>\n<p>The CareChex ratings at the national, state, and regional level are based on publicly available data from the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services, CMS, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The CareChex awards are based on a rigorous review of patient complications, readmissions, and mortality.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carechexawards.com\">www.carechexawards.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five national 2023 CareChex\u00ae Awards honor UConn&#8217;s\u00a0medical excellence in coronary bypass surgery and neurological care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":199588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1969,2288,179],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1873],"class_list":["post-199587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cardiology","category-neurology","category-uconn-health"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 02:18:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199590,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199587\/revisions\/199590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/199588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199587"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=199587"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=199587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}