Only Orange County hospital to receive Healthgrades’ stroke excellence awards for two consecutive years
Middletown, NY – Garnet Health Medical Center, formerly Orange Regional Medical Center, is among the top 10 percent in the nation for stroke care, according to new research by Healthgrades, the leading resource that connects consumers, physicians and health systems.
“Providing high-quality outcomes and care to our community is our highest priority,” said Brian Tew, Chief Executive Officer of Garnet Health Medical Center. “We applaud the efforts of our clinical and support staff who go above and beyond each day to ensure our patients receive exceptional care.”
Garnet Health Medical Center is the only hospital in Orange County to be recognized with the Stroke Care Excellence Award for two consecutive years.
Healthgrades Specialty Excellence Awards recognize hospitals with superior performance in specific specialty lines and specialty focus areas. From 2017 through 2019, patients treated at hospitals receiving the Stroke Care Specialty Excellence Award have, on average, a 39.1 percent lower risk of dying than if they were treated in hospitals that did not receive the award. Patients treated at hospitals that did not receive the award are, on average, 1.64 times more likely to die than if they were treated at hospitals that did receive the award.*
Garnet Health Medical Center was also recognized by Healthgrades as a Five-Star recipient for Treatment of Stroke for three consecutive years. This means patients treated for Stroke experienced statistically significant lower rates of mortality when treated at Garnet Health Medical Center.
For more information about stroke services, visit www.garnethealth.org/stroke.
To learn more about Garnet Health Medical Center, visit www.garnethealth.org.
About Garnet Health Medical Center
Garnet Health Medical Center features seven floors of state-of-the-art technology and provides 383 beds and employs approximately 3,300 healthcare professionals. In addition to inpatient services, highlights of Garnet Health Medical Center include a cancer center and a five-story outpatient services building on the main campus, featuring Garnet Health Doctors with primary care and specialty physicians, urgent care, outpatient surgical and diagnostic services and more. Garnet Health Medical Center was named by Healthgrades as one of the 100 best hospitals nationally for cardiac intervention and General Surgery and was a recipient of the Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award™. Garnet Health Medical Center also achieved the Healthgrades 2019 and 2020 America’s 250 Best Hospitals Award™ placing the hospital in the top 5 percent of more than 4,500 hospitals assessed nationwide for its superior clinical performance. It is a designated Magnet hospital recognizing excellence in Nursing; a recipient of the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite; and its Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system has achieved Stage 7 which is the highest level on HIMSS Analytics’ EMR adoption model. Garnet Health Medical Center is an Academic Affiliate of the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine. It is also a member of Garnet Health, its corporate parent, which is recognized by Ethisphere as one of the 2018 and 2019 World’s Most Ethical Companies. To learn more about Garnet Health Medical Center, visit garnethealth.org.
