“This new rating is the by-product of our amazing care team working together to provide the overall highest level of care possible to our community,” said Chris York, president of Baylor Scott & White Medical Center-Grapevine, in an email. “We are incredibly thankful for and excited about this acknowledgment.”
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services use 51 outcome metrics across seven major categories of care to calculate a composite score for each hospital, York said. These categories include mortality, readmissions, safety of care, patient experience and timeliness of care, among other categories, he said. These outcomes are then compared against one another to determine which hospitals provided the highest and lowest levels of care.
York said the hospital worked deliberately to achieve such progress.
“Eighteen months ago, we established a goal to be recognized as one of the best hospitals in the United States,” York said in his email. “Like many other hospitals, we had opportunity for improvement.”
Striving for the highest rating possible speaks to the hospital’s corporate motto of “Never settle,” York said in his email.
“If we’re good in a given area, we aspire to be great; if we’re great, we aspire to set the standard for that given outcome,” York said.
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center-Grapevine
1650 W. College St., Grapevine
817-481-1588
www.bswhealth.com/locations/grapevine
