Mariners Hospital provides very high quality patient care, according to data recently released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Hospital Quality Alliance. The data show that 41 percent of Mariners quality measures are in the top 10 percent of all hospitals nationwide. Other hospitals in Monroe and Miami-Dade Counties averaged only 17 percent of their quality measures in the top tier.
One area in which Mariners excelled was giving aspirin to every heart attack patient within 24 hours of arrival at the hospital. This is important because an aspirin may help reduce the severity of the attack. Mariners also surpassed other hospitals in measuring the amount of oxygen in the blood of pneumonia patients who arrived at the hospital. Pneumonia can lower the oxygen in the blood, because the air spaces in the lungs fill with mucus and the oxygen the patient breathes does not get into the bloodstream. It is important that the amount of oxygen in a patients blood be measured within 24 hours of arriving at the hospital to determine if the patient needs oxygen therapy. The oxygen level in the blood of every patient who arrived at Mariners and was diagnosed with pneumonia was measured within the recommended 24-hour period.
