Lake Huron Medical Center Achieves Highest Five-Star Rating from CMS

February 3, 2020

Federal Agency Rates Hospital Among Top Nine Percent in Nation 

Lake Huron Medical Center Achieves Highest Five-Star Rating from CMS Federal Agency Rates Hospital Among Top Nine Percent in Nation PORT HURON, MI – Lake Huron Medical Center earned the highest five-star overall hospital rating by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), placing Lake Huron Medical Center among the top nine percent of hospitals nationwide.

* Lake Huron Medical Center, a member of Prime Healthcare, is one of only 20 hospitals in Michigan to receive an overall five-star rating by CMS and is the only hospital in St. Clair County to receive top ratings. Lake Huron Medical Center’s overall hospital rating rose to five stars from four stars in the previous annual CMS report.

“These ratings reflect the sincere commitment of our doctors, nurses, staff and hospital to the communities that we serve,” said Jose Kottoor, Chief Executive Officer, Lake Huron Medical Center. “We are honored that Lake Huron Medical Center has been recognized among the best in the nation.”

This overall hospital rating is based on measured data publicly reported on CMS’ Hospital Compare tool (medicare.gov/hospitalcompare). It summarizes up to 51 measures across seven aspects of quality, including patient experience and effectiveness of care into a single star rating for each hospital. The hospital rating shows how well each hospital performed on average compared to other hospitals in the U.S. in treating common conditions such as heart attack or pneumonia. Participating hospitals reported data to CMS, the federal agency that runs the Medicare program through the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program. Those hospitals were given an overall rating ranging from one to five stars, with five as the highest and four the most common score. Lake Huron Medical Center earned five stars and ranked in the top nine percent, according to the report.

“Lake Huron Medical Center credits this achievement to a commitment to clinical excellence and thereby decreasing our complication rate and hospital acquired conditions and infections,” added Sridhar Reddy, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Lake Huron Medical Center.

This top rating is the latest acknowledgment of quality care at Lake Huron Medical Center, which also recently received Trauma Center Level III designation by Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Leapfrog A Rating (Straight A’s since Fall 2018), Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award, and 2020 Women’s Choice Awards for America’s Best Hospitals for Patient Safety and Emergency Care to name a few highlights.

Lake Huron Medical Center is one of only eight hospitals within Prime Healthcare to have achieved CMS’ highest five-star rating.

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Lake Huron Medical Center Lake Huron Medical Center is a 144-bed community hospital that provides a wide range of inpatient and outpatient health care services to residents of St. Clair and Sanilac counties including emergency, cancer and comprehensive breast care, bariatric surgery, physical therapy and rehabilitation services, pulmonary rehabilitation and specialized diabetes programs. Lake Huron Medical Center is also proud of its affiliation with Lake Huron Medical Group which offers holistic, patient-centered care through primary and specialty care physician practices located throughout the Blue Water Area. Lake Huron Medical Center has been at the heart of the local community for more than 65 years working diligently to improve access to health care for residents of the Blue Water Area. Lake Huron Medical Center has been consistently recognized for clinical excellence in the delivery of patient care, safety and experience. Raising the bar for quality health care in the Blue Water Area, Lake Huron Medical Center received the Women’s Choice Award in recognition of among “America’s Best Hospitals in Emergency Care”, Leapfrog Group’s grade “A” in hospital safety, Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award, rated four stars by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® for Hospital Accreditation by demonstrating continuous compliance with its performance standards. Learn more at www.mylakehuron.com. About Prime Healthcare: Prime Healthcare is an award-winning national hospital system with 45 acute-care hospitals and more than 100 outpatient locations providing nearly 40,000 jobs in 14 states. Fifteen of the hospitals are not-for-profit and members of the Prime Healthcare Foundation, a 501(c)3 public charity. Based in California and one of the largest hospital systems in the country, Prime Healthcare is committed to ensuring access to quality healthcare. Prime Healthcare and its hospitals have been recognized as among the “100 Top Hospitals” in the nation 47 times and among the “15 Top Health Systems” three times. For more information, please visit www.primehealthcare.com.