IRON MOUNTAIN — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has given Marshfield Medical Center-Dickinson a four-star rating, placing the facility in the top 25% nationwide.

CMS on July 31 updated the Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings on its Care Compare website and Provider Data Catalog. The 2024 Overall Star Rating selects 46 of the hospital quality measures CMS publicly reports on Medicare.gov and divides them into five measure groups: Mortality, Safety of Care, Readmission, Patient Experience, and Timely and Effective Care.

“Our entire team is very proud to earn again the CMS four-star rating,” said Mandy Shelast, Marshfield Michigan Region president. “We work hard, every day, to monitor and improve the services in our hospital that are vital to our patient’s overall health and wellness.”

In 2021, the Dickinson team committed to achieving a five-star CMS rating. Since then MMC-Dickionson has jumped from three to four stars. Of the 4,658 graded hospitals across the nation, only 1,147, or 24.6%, received a four-star rating or higher.

MMC-D is also denoted on the Medicare.gov website with the “Birthing-Friendly” distinction. “Birthing-Friendly” is the first-ever CMS designation to describe high-quality maternity care.

To earn the designation, hospitals and health systems report their progress on CMS’s Maternal Morbidity Structural Measure to the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program. The measure identifies whether a hospital or health system has:

— Participated in a statewide or national perinatal quality improvement collaborative program.

— Implemented evidence-based quality interventions in hospital settings to improve maternal health.

Marshfield Clinic Health System is an integrated health system that serves Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, with more than 1,600 providers comprising 170 specialties, health plan, and research and education programs. Primary operations include more than 60 Marshfield Clinic locations, 11 hospitals, Marshfield Children’s Hospital, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Security Health Plan, and Marshfield Clinic Health System Foundation. Learn

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