Delray Beach, FLA-July 25th 2017– Delray Medical Center achieves the 2017 Gynecologic Surgery Excellence Award™ recipient by Healthgrades, a leading online resource for comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals.This award places Delray Medical Center among a select group of hospitals, the top 10% of all hospitals evaluated, for providing outstanding quality outcomes in gynecologic surgery.

“As our population grows, it’s important to provide the best possible care for women’s services in our community said Mark Bryan, CEO at Delray Medical Center.  “Our physicians and medical staff will continue to bring that service and quality to our patients.”

To help consumers evaluate and compare hospital performance in gynecologic surgery, Healthgrades analyzed patient outcome data for all patients (all-payer data) made available by 17 individual states for years 2013 through 2015. Healthgrades found that there is a significant variation in hospital quality for gynecologic surgery.

• From 2013 through 2015, patients treated in hospitals receiving the Gynecologic Surgery Excellence Award, had, on average, a 47.6% lower risk of experiencing a complication while in the hospital than if they were treated in hospitals that did not receive the Gynecologic Surgery Excellence Award.*
• From 2013 through 2015, if all hospitals in the 17 states included in this analysis, as a group, performed similarly to hospitals receiving the Gynecologic Surgery Excellence Award, on average, 15,557 in-hospital complications could potentially have been avoided.*