A.V. HOSPITAL RATED TOPS IN MATERNITY CARE.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER -- Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Hospital announced that it has been recognized with the top rating for clinical excellence in maternity care from a firm that assesses hospitals, nursing homes and physicians. The hospital's five-star rating from Colorado-based HealthGrades put it in the top 15 percent of hospitals in 17 states and marks the fifth year the hospital has been rated five stars in maternity care. In addition, Antelope Valley Hospital has ranked in the top 5 percent of hospitals in the nation for maternity care for three years consecutively, and has been recognized with the HealthGrades 2006/2007 Maternity Care Excellence Award. ``We have made maternity care a major priority at Antelope Valley Hospital and this can be seen with the expansion and opening of our new Women and Infants Pavilion later this summer,'' said Les Wong, hospital chief executive officer. ``Considering that we deliver more than 5,000 babies annually, we are proud that our staff and our physicians have consistently maintained the quality that it takes to receive such a prestigious award.It is acknowledgment acknowledgment, in law, formal declaration or admission by a person who executed an instrument (e.g., a will or a deed) that the instrument is his. The acknowledgment is made before a court, a notary public, or any other authorized person. of the hard work and compassion they display every day.'' The HealthGrades maternity care ratings were based on complication rates associated with vaginal and cesarean cesarean /ce·sar·e·an/ (se-zar´e-an) see under section. ce·sar·e·an or cae·sar·e·an or cae·sar·i·an or ce·sar·i·an adj. Of or relating to a cesarean section. deliveries, volume, neonatal mortality Noun 1. neonatal mortality - the death rate during the first 28 days of life neonatal mortality rate death rate, deathrate, fatality rate, mortality rate, mortality - the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year and complication rates for nonindicated or patient-choice cesarean sections cesarean section (sĭzâr`ēən), delivery of an infant by surgical removal from the uterus through an abdominal incision. The operation is of ancient origin: indeed, the name derives from the legend that Julius Caesar was born in this . ``We are very proud of our statistics and what we have been able to accomplish for three years in a row,'' said Triz Tajalli, executive director of Women's and Children's Services at AVH AVH Academy of Veterinary Homeopathy AVH Association Valentin Haüy pour le bien des aveugles AVH Acute Viral Hepatitis AVH Alex Van Halen AVH Antelope Valley Hospital (Lancaster, California) AVH Auditory Verbal Hallucination . ``We are the sixth-busiest maternity program in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, , serving a high-risk population, so this outcome is even more meritorious mer·i·to·ri·ous adj. Deserving reward or praise; having merit. [Middle English, from Latin merit to us.'' HealthGrades analyzed maternity care for more than 1,400 hospitals that make this information publicly available, assessing their clinical performance and quality over the three-year period of 2002-2004. ``Each year, HealthGrades assesses hospital quality and publishes every hospital's ratings online,'' said Samantha Collier, HealthGrades' vice president of medical affairs. ``Three million people visit healthgrades.com each month in order to determine the hospitals in their communities that provide the highest quality care.'' The complete maternity care ratings are published, free of charge, on the HealthGrades Web site, www.healthgrades.com. Ratings for 28 other medical procedures and diagnoses -- including cardiac, pulmonary, vascular, stroke, orthopedics, critical care and gastrointestinal services are also available on the HealthGrades Web site. |
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