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How safe is your hospital? Consumer Reports ranks Baylor Dallas safest hospital in Texas

Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas tops the list of Texas' 42 "safest" hospitals in the August 2012 issue of Consumer Reports magazine. The report, "How Safe Is Your Hospital?" ranks the country's safest hospitals by state and safety scores. Five other Baylor hospitals are on the list, too: Baylor All Saints Medical Center at Fort Worth (seventh), Baylor Medical Center at Garland (18th), Baylor Medical Center at Irving (22nd), Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine (23rd) and Baylor Medical Center at Carrollton (38th). The report looked at six safety ratings categories: infection, readmissions, communication, CT scanning, complications and mortality. It cited projections from a 2010 report from the Department of Health and Human Services, which says infections, surgical mistakes and other medical harm contribute to the deaths of an estimated 180,000 hospital patients a year. Another 1.4 million patients reportedly suffer serious harm while under hospital care. John McWhorter, president of Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas and senior vice president of Baylor Health Care System, is quoted in the section of the article, "Why some hospitals succeed:" Top-scoring hospitals have found different ways to improve safety ... Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, one of our highest-scoring teaching hospitals, says it saw a 23 percent reduction in sepsis, a particularly serious infection, and a 34 percent decline in preventable deaths since 2006. "We set goals for medical directors and made them part of their performance appraisals," says John McWhorter, the hospital's president. Read the Consumer Reports article in its entirety: http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/ma...