DMC Safety & Quality

DMC Detroit Receiving Hospital is one of America’s Safest Hospitals
DMC Detroit Receiving Hospital met the stringent national standards of the Leapfrog Group, the nation’s premier quality ranking agency, to receive honors as one of the top hospitals in the nation for patient quality and safety.

The Leapfrog Group’s national rankings, based on a survey conducted at nearly 1,200 hospitals across the country, are the most comprehensive and current assessments of hospital quality and safety available. Leapfrog's Top Hospitals 2011 list includes university and teaching hospitals, rural hospitals and children's hospitals.

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)

Joint Commission evaluates the quality and safety of care for more than 15,000 health care organizations. To maintain and earn accreditation, DMC must have an extensive on-site review by a team of Joint Commission health care professionals, at least once every three years. The purpose of the review is to evaluate the organization's performance in areas that affect patient care. Accreditation may then be awarded based on how well the organizations met Joint Commission standards. All DMC hospitals surveyed in 2008 have successfully received full accreditation. To learn more about how to use JCAHO accreditation information to select the best healthcare provider for you or your family, go to www.jcaho.org.

HealthGrades Clinical Quality Ratings

Two DMC hospitals – DMC Huron Valley-Sinai and DMC Sinai-Grace -- are ranked among the top five percent in the nation for clinical quality by the health-care rating organization HealthGrades. Only 270 hospitals across the U.S. earned the 2009 Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence. The winning hospitals collectively had a 27 percent lower risk-adjusted mortality rate and an eight percent lower risk-adjusted inpatient complication rate for Medicare patients. If all hospitals met the performance of these DMC hospitals, 152,666 lives would have been saved between 2005 and 2007.

Huron Valley-Sinai received the Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence Award (2008) and three other DMC hospitals – DMC Harper University Hospital, DMC Detroit Receiving Hospital and Sinai-Grace received HealthGrades’ Stroke Care Excellence Award for 2007. Also recognized were Harper for Gastrointestinal Care and Pulmonary Care and Sinai-Grace for Critical Care.

Bariatric Center of Excellence

Harper University Hospital has received full approval from the Surgical Review Corporation (SRC) and the American Society for Bariatric Surgery (ASBS) as a Bariatric Center of Excellence. This accreditation recognizes that Harper's bariatric program meets the patient care standards as set forth by the SRC and ASBS.