Resurrection Medical Center Among Top 5% of Hospitals Nationwide for Women's Health

Resurrection Medical Center Among Top 5% of Hospitals Nationwide for Women's
Health
Study: Best-Performing Hospitals Consistently Outperform Poor-Performing
Hospitals for Women's Health

CHICAGO, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Resurrection Medical Center was presented
with the 2009/2010 Women's Health Excellence Award(TM) from HealthGrades, the
nation's leading independent healthcare ratings organization, based on a newly
released study of patient outcomes.

Hospitals that receive this award rank among the top 5% of all hospitals
nationwide when it comes to providing care to women in three areas: Women's
Medicine (heart attack, congestive heart failure, pneumonia, chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease, and stroke); Women's Cardiovascular Procedures
(coronary bypass surgery, peripheral vascular bypass, coronary interventional
procedures, resection/replacement of abdominal aortic aneurysm, carotid
surgery, and valve replacement); and Women's Bone & Joint Health (total knee
and total hip replacement surgeries, spinal surgeries, and hip fracture
repair).

"We are continually looking for ways to strengthen our services and optimize
our patient outcomes," says Sister Donna Marie Wolowicki, C.R., CEO. "Our
achievement in Women's Health is a clear indication that our quality
improvement initiatives have been extremely successful. Although this award is
for Women's Health Excellence, we are committed to providing every patient who
enters our doors with excellent, compassionate and respectful care."

According the Sixth Annual HealthGrades Women's Health in American Hospitals
study released today by HealthGrades, wide gaps in quality outcomes for women
persist among hospitals. The study, which analyzes patient outcomes for the
inhospital treatment of 16 procedures/diagnoses concerning women's health and
maternity care, finds that top-performing hospitals improved their mortality
and morbidity 33% more than poorly performing hospitals in the period studied,
2005 through 2007. Among eligible hospitals, the study found that a total of
18,089 lives could have been saved and 6,849 complications avoided if all
eligible hospitals performed at the level of the best-performing hospitals in
women's health.

HealthGrades analyzed more than 2.6 million hospitalizations using Medicare
data from all 50 states from 2005 through 2007. To be included in the
analysis, hospitals had to have an open heart program and treat significant
numbers of women for stroke. Hospitals also had to have a significant patient
population in at least six additional cohorts from all areas (pulmonary,
cardiac, vascular, orthopedics and spine).

The full HealthGrades study can be found at www.healthgrades.com.

Ranked in the nation's top 20 "Best Places to Work in Healthcare" by Modern
Healthcare magazine, Resurrection Medical Center is part of Resurrection
Health Care, a family of health care services providing advanced medical care
and exceptional customer service with compassion and hope. Our hospitals,
nursing homes, retirement communities, home health services, behavioral health
programs and numerous outpatient services are conveniently located in many
Chicagoland neighborhoods.

Resurrection Health Care is a not-for-profit Catholic organization sponsored
by the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth and the Sisters of the
Resurrection.

SOURCE Resurrection Medical Center

Evelyn O'Connor of Resurrection Medical Center, +1-773-594-7428,
Evelyn.o'connor@reshealthcare.org