Quality MattersUnderstanding your risk

IN SALT LAKE CITY, UT

Your choice matters

The truth is that patients having surgery in hospitals rated 5-stars will have a lower risk of experiencing a complication

or death than if they were treated in hospital rated as 1 star in the following

6 common surgical procedures.

72.1%

86.0%

59.5%

56.6%

72.7%

67.2%

BARIATRIC SURGERY†

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT*

HYSTERECTOMY‡

PACEMAKER PROCEDURES*

TOTAL HIP REPLACEMENT*

TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT*

YOU CAN CONTROL

YOU CAN’T CONTROL

Where you live may affect your risk, based on having better (or worse)

access to high quality hospitals

The hospital most convenient for you may not be the best for your surgery

Location, location, location!Every procedure or surgery has a risk of a negative outcome (complications or death). And each individual’s risk is different.

There are risk factors that you cancontrol and others you cannot.

Age

Gender

Medical History

Physician

Hospital

Before any surgery, understand your risks

Healthgrades Risk IQ Tool can help

The choice and location of your:

The new Healthgrades Risk IQ Tool provides an easy way to understand your personal risk.

The Risk IQ Tool helps you make better care decisions and select the hospital where you are most likely to have a successful outcome.

Reduction in complications

10x

LOW

You may have several excellent choices nearby

In some cases, the highest quality hospital for your surgery may be farther from home

In Salt Lake City, UT 100% of patients having Coronary

Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Surgery have to drive more than 50 miles to

get to a hospital rated as 5-stars

Reduce Your Risk

STEPS TO TAKE TO

Use Healthgrades to choose a hospital with the best outcomes

(rated 5-stars) and a doctor with the most experience in the specific

procedure you need

Calculate your personal risk using Healthgrades

Risk IQ Tool

The Top PerformersIN SALT LAKE CITY, UT

Healthgrades produces a detailed report on risk-adjusted complication and mortality rates in America’s hospitals by analyzing 3 years of data for :

Plus, the research this year includes an analysis of relative convenience to hospitals in general, and to hospitals demonstrating superior outcomes in

6 common procedure categories.

How Healthgrades Measures Hospital Performance

4,500 32 7Short-term,

acute care U.S. hospitals

Conditions and procedures using

Medicare data

Procedures using All-Payer

state data

*Statistics are based on Healthgrades analysis of MedPAR data for years 2013 through 2015 and represent 3-year estimates for Medicare patients only

†Statistics are based on Healthgrades analysis of All-Payer data for years 2011 through 2013 and represent 3-year estimates for patients in 13 states for which all payer data was made available

‡Statistics are based on Healthgrades analysis of All-Payer data for years 2012 through 2014 and represent 3-year estimates for patients in 17 states for which all payer data was made available

Learn more about how Healthgrades measures hospital quality: www.healthgrades.com/quality/hospital-ratings-awards

YOUR RISK

YOUR RESULTS

Expected lower rate ofcomplications or mortality at

a hospital rated 5-stars:

Top performing hospitals for the following 5 common surgical procedures include:

* In this category there are no hospitals rated 5-stars in your area. Therefore, hospitals rated 3-stars are listed.

Total Hip ReplacementLDS HospitalUniversity of Utah Health Care

Intermountain Medical CenterSt. Mark's HospitalJordan Valley Medical Center

Pacemaker Procedures* Coronary Artery Bypass Graft*Intermountain Medical CenterSalt Lake Regional Medical CenterSt. Mark's HospitalUniversity of Utah Health Care

Total Knee ReplacementLDS HospitalSalt Lake Regional Medical CenterSt. Mark's Hospital

Bariatric Surgery*LDS HospitalSt. Mark's HospitalUniversity of Utah Health Care

of Americans have to drive further than 5 miles to getto any hospital* Based on 50 major markets and 6 studied procedures

28%ONLY