Dénia Hospital receives 4 TOP20 awards
The Hospital de Dénia has received today in Madrid 4 TOP 20 awards in the categories of: Global Hospital Management, Nervous System, Respiratory and Kidney and Urinary Tracts.
The event was attended by the Managing Director of the Dénia Health Department, Dr. Javier Palau; accompanied by the Assistance Director, Pedro Clemente; the Director of Care and Services, Natalia Casado; and the Head of the Neurology Service, Alexandre García Escrivà.
The manager of the Department of Health of Dénia -DSD- has underlined the importance of the awards, "since they recognize the effort of the professionals, at the same time that they compare us with other centers and similar management contexts; which provides a very objective dimension of the quality of service that we are providing in the Marina Alta”.
The Top 20 are based on the comparison of results between more than 200 Spanish health centers, which voluntarily submit to the evaluation of some thirty indicators and distinguish those hospitals with the best operation and the highest quality and care efficiency in aspects such as: management Efficient length of hospital stay and outpatient surgery, compared with the risk-adjusted measure of readmissions, complications, and mortality.
In this sense, the Director of Assistance of the DSD, Dr. Pedro Clemente, has underlined the "importance of being able to compare ourselves with two hundred Spanish health centers with similar characteristics and thus establish continuous improvement mechanisms to continue working on the culture of quality that we have implanted”.
Top 20
TOP 20 Hospitals is a voluntary and free hospital evaluation program, based on objective indicators, obtained from data that is routinely recorded. It offers the health sector a useful benchmark for improving results, based on indicators of quality, operation and efficiency.