The Sanitas La Moraleja Hospital WINS TOP 20 for hospital management

in the category of medium private hospital

– according to the ranking of centres which draws annually up consultant Iasist

-El Hospital Sanitas La Moraleja has been evaluated by various criteria of quality of care, adequacy of clinical practice and efficiency

– critical of mortality indicators, award-winning hospitals have an index 25% lower than the rest of participants

– 163 all Spain hospitals have participated in the 2011 edition. Of the 41 Awards, only six have been for private management

Madrid, 2011-October the Hospital Sanitas La Moraleja has imposed as one of the highest rated and most efficient in the country in the ranking of hospitals that annually produces Iasist consultant. In particular, the hospital has received the award TOP 20 hospital management global within the category of medium-sized private hospitals.

The Sanitas La Moraleja Hospital has been recognized for their good results in the TOP 20 hospitals programme 8 indicators: quality (mortality, complications, re-entry), operation (surgery without income and avoidable hospitalizations) and cost-effectiveness (stays, productivity and cost). Among the valued parameters of mortality, where award-winning hospitals recorded a rate 25% lower than the rest of the participants. TOP 20 hospitals also have 15% fewer complications and one 13% less urgent and related short-term re-entry.

Ricardo de Bedoya, managing director of the Hospital Sanitas La Moraleja, has expressed satisfaction with the TOP 20 Prize and has stressed that in a context of crisis and which are going through is essential to be efficient in the management and offer the best service to our patients ”.

In this sense, the Sanitas hospital centres have recently achieved the seal of excellence European 500 +, recognition granted by Club excellence in management, validated automatically with the equivalent at European level, the Levels of Excellence from the EFQM (Recognised for Excellence 5 Stars).

The Sanitas La Moraleja Hospital, which opened its doors in November 2005, is one of the most technologically advanced hospitals in the community of Madrid. It has a medical team of prestige in all specialties, with special attention to maternal and child health area and the surgical specialties. It has 14,800 m 2 distributed in 90 single rooms, 35 medical specialties, 6 operating rooms and emergency 24 h area.

For its part, the Hospital Sanitas La Zarzuela has also been for 3 consecutive years (2004, 2005 and 2006) in the TOP 20 private hospitals.
Among the only six award-winning private hospitals

TOP 20 hospitals program is an initiative of consulting firm Iasist, whose objective is to identify the patterns of practice (benchmarks) according to the results of quality, efficiency and productivity. In its twelfth edition, the report has analysed 163 hospitals of all Spain: 126 public and 37 private. Of these, 41 hospitals have managed some award, belonging to the national system of health (SNS) 35 and only 6 to private management.

The discussed categories have been:

• overall hospital management: large general hospitals, large hospitals of regional and national reference, general hospitals, small and medium-sized, small and medium-sized reference, large private hospitals, specialty hospitals

• special awards to hospitals in direct management: area nervous system, respiratory area, heart, digestive surgery, Traumatology and orthopedics and area of women’s

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You sanitas hospital manages four hospitals and 71 health centres multiespecialidad and dental. You sanitas residential is one of the main companies of Spain elderly care, he has 41 residences throughout the country and has more than 5,000 residential spaces.

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