Surgical Care
The federal government's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) collects information on how well University of Missouri Health Care and other hospitals throughout the country perform on important measures of health care quality. The information they collect includes data on how heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia are treated, along with the treatment of surgical patients.
Surgical care
Surgery is an important part of modern health care. Surgical procedures can save and improve patients' lives, but like any medical treatment, they also carry risks, such as surgery-related infections. To minimize those risks, we follow strict guidelines that are proven by medical research to reduce the risk of surgical complications. The below chart lists some of the procedures we follow and shows how we compare to other hospitals.
Why is the data on this website from several months ago?
The federal government's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) collects information on how well University of Missouri Health Care and other hospitals throughout the country perform on important measures of health care quality. The information they collect includes data on how heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia are treated, along with the treatment of surgical patients.
The government releases the information on its Hospital Compare website (http://www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov/); however, it takes some time for CMS to gather and study the information, so the information is several months old. For example, in May 2011, the most recent publicly available information was for the yearlong period between October 2009 to September 2010.
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