St. Luke’s Miners Medicare score

St. Luke’s Miners Campus, along with St. Luke’s Anderson Campus and St. Luke’s Warren Campus, has received the highest possible quality rating from the annual quality and safety hospital review conducted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid. In Pennsylvania and New Jersey, only 15 hospitals received such an honor, and the St. Luke’s Hospital Anderson, Miners and Warren campuses were the only hospitals in the region to receive the highest rating.

The results were based on 57 quality measures collected from 4,000 Medicare-certified hospitals. The quality measures spanned over categories including mortality, safety of care, readmission, infection, complication rates, patient experience, effectiveness and timeliness of care and efficient use of medical imaging.

“We are honored to receive a 5-star rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services,” says Wendy Lazo, president, of St. Luke’s Miners Campus.

“Our staff continually works hard to support our mission to provide exceptional care and service to our community.”

CMS designed the rating system to direct consumers to the hospitals that provide the best health care and to encourage health systems to improve the quality of the care provided. Only 9 percent of hospitals in the country were given the 5-star achievement, with the majority of hospitals receiving 3-stars.

Hospital ratings are available at CMS’ Hospital Compare website.