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Quick Facts about Saint Vincent
General Facts:
- Founded in 1875 by the Sisters of Saint Joseph
- Employs 1,650 in the health center and 2,210 system wide
- Provides $246.8 million in salaries, with an economic impact of more than $22 million in the community
- Services include:
Affiliates include:
- 15 Saint Vincent Medical Group primary care and 10 specialty practices
- Saint Vincent Surgery Center
- Erie Home Health Services
- The Regional Heart Network
- Westfield Memorial Hospital
- Northwest Regional Gamma Knife Network
Quality:
- Saint Vincent exceeded the national average in 14 of the 18 quality-of-care indicators on the Hospital Compare website, which allows consumers to compare data on how U.S. hospitals treat the three most common medical conditions: pneumonia, heart attack and heart failure.
- Saint Vincent earned an award of $1.2 million dollars from Highmark Quality Blue Hospital Improvement for scoring 100 percent in all categories for improving outcomes for four select health improvement projects.
- Introduced Guidelines in Applied Practice (GAP) initiatives, which pushed heart attack patient outcomes above the state average.
- Saint Vincent earned better-than-expected mortality and readmission ratings in 10 categories from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4).
- Saint Vincent was named to Solucient’s list of the nation’s Top 100 Performance Improvement Leader Hospitals.
- The organization that accredits hospitals across the country gave Saint Vincent a ranking above that of most accredited hospitals for its performance in heart failure and pneumonia care.
- Implemented 11 evidence-based practice initiatives, improving outcomes for patients. One such effort, which significantly improved outcomes for pneumonia patients, earned Saint Vincent a Vantage Clinical Quality Award.
- Improved our ratio of mitral valve repairs vs. replacements to reduce complications and recovery times for patients
Innovations:
- The region’s first childbirth classes
- The region’s first nurse anesthetist
- The region’s first urgent care center
- The region’s first outpatient surgery center
- The region’s first cardiovascular intensive care unit
- Pioneered the use of Mosaic heart valve and repairing a hole in the heart
- Introduced Unispacer technology to provide knee replacement candidates with an alternative to total joint replacement.
- Minimized discomfort for patients undergoing gastrointestinal diagnostic testing by introducing the use of a tiny capsule camera.
- Introduced drug-coated stents to reduce the regrowth of scar tissue in arteries.
- Established a Stealth Station, featuring neurological navigation hardware and software to help neurosurgeons work with more precision
- Cryosurgery for prostate cancer, making recovery faster and potentially eliminating the need for radiation treatment
Exclusives:
- Saint Vincent is the only hospital in the region to have implanted the Thoratec Artificial Heart
- Saint Vincent is the only provider in the region to offer Computer Aided Detection (CAD) for mammography, enabling radiologists to find cancers up to two years earlier.
- Saint Vincent is the only hospital in the region to offer a non-invasive alternative to conventional brain surgery with our Gamma Knife technology, offering brain surgery without a scalpel.
- Our NICU – the community’s busiest – is the only one to offer nitric oxide therapy to babies with pulmonary hypertension, often eliminating the need for our tiniest patients to be transferred to specialty hospitals in larger cities.
- We are the only hospital in the region with two dedicated neonatologists plus a certified neonatal nurse practitioner.
- Partnering with the Regional Cancer Center, Saint Vincent is now home to the region’s first comprehensive oncology program, with the region’s only surgical oncologist – Hank Hill, MD
Saint Vincent is the only hospital in the area to offer Helix Hydro-Jet technology, which minimizes use of a scalpel for patients requiring surgery for liver or pancreatic cancer. |
