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OKLAHOMA CITY (March 15, 2017) - INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center has received the 2016 Women’s Choice Award® as one of America’s Best Hospitals for Patient Safety. This evidence-based designation is the only patient safety award that identifies the country’s best health care institutions based on robust criteria that considers female patient satisfaction and clinical excellence.

The list of over 472 award winners, including INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center, represents hospitals that have exceptional performance in limiting a wide range of hospital- associated infections and complications from surgery and medical treatment. 

Hospitals that have earned this award have had a low incidence of problems arising from surgical errors and infections. The hospitals that report their frequency to The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are ranked for each of the following eleven measures:

1. Deaths among patients with serious treatable complications after surgery,
2. Collapsed lung due to medical treatment,
3. Serious blood clots after surgery,
4. A wound that splits open after surgery on the abdomen or pelvis,
5. Accidental cuts and tears from medical treatment,
6. Serious complications,
7. Central line-associated blood stream infections 
8. Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections
9. Surgical Site Infection from colon surgery 
10. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) blood laboratory-identified events (bloodstream infections), and 
11. Clostridium difficile (C.diff.) laboratory-identified events (intestinal infections).

Hospitals can be eliminated from consideration for the following reasons.

• Not reporting on at least 4 of the surgical complication measures (1-6) or 4 of the infection measures (7-11),
• Having a patient recommendation rating in the bottom 25% nationally,
• Receiving a CMS rating of “Worse than the U.S. National Rate” for any of the above measures
• Not implementing Safe Surgery Checklists.

For the remaining hospitals, the Women’s Choice Award (WCA) averaged their rankings for all the measures (weighted slightly toward surgical errors as a result of the WCA’s women’s survey) and cut off the award list only including those that averaged in the top half nationally. 

“We honor INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center for being named and recognized as a hospital of choice among women, for it represents the strongest and most important consumer message in today’s health care marketplace when considering that women account for 90% of all health care decisions. Improving patient safety is not only a matter of error prevention, it’s a focused effort to create the safest patient experience.” said Delia Passi, Founder and CEO of the Women’s Choice Award.