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• Source: Dallas Morning News
• Date: October 16, 2011
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• Bylines: Daniel Lathrop , Ryan McNeill
• Topics: Health Care
• Data Types: State Data
• Description/Excerpt: Parkland Memorial Hospital, now under U.S. government monitoring because of systemic failures in patient care, has for years been one of the state’s worst-performing hospitals on a broad federal measure of patient safety, Dallas Morning News analysis shows. Several other Dallas-area hospitals also ranked among the 10 worst large hospitals in Texas, including UT Southwestern University Hospital-St. Paul, which shares physicians with Parkland. Others were John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Methodist Charlton Medical Center in southwest Dallas and Baylor Medical Center-Garland. Only 10 of the 27 large hospitals in Dallas, Collin, Denton and Tarrant counties ranked above average on the patient safety measure, which was designed to track problems such as surgical accidents and hospital-acquired infections. And only one — Texas Health Harris Methodist Southwest Fort Worth — scored among the state’s 10 best large general hospitals, those with 200 beds or more. Dallas County’s top performer was Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.
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