{"id":561618,"date":"2026-04-03T05:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/561618\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T05:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:51:15","slug":"hartford-area-hospital-earns-national-honors-for-orthopedics-prostate-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/561618\/","title":{"rendered":"Hartford-Area Hospital Earns National Honors for Orthopedics, Prostate Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARTFORD, CT \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinityhealthofne.org\/location\/saint-francis-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Saint Francis Hospital<\/a> has received multiple national recognitions from <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.healthgrades.com\/right-care\/patient-advocate\/specialty-excellence-awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Healthgrades<\/a> for its performance in orthopedic care and prostate surgery, the hospital announced March 26.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital, located at 114 Woodland St., Hartford, was named among America\u2019s 50 Best for Outpatient Joint Replacement and America\u2019s 100 Best for Prostate Surgery. <\/p>\n<p>It also received Specialty Excellence Awards for outpatient joint replacement, outpatient orthopedic surgery, and prostate surgery\u2014placing it in the top 10 percent of hospitals nationwide in those categories.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Saint Francis earned five-star ratings for total knee replacement, total hip replacement, and prostate removal surgery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese accolades are a tangible representation of our unwavering commitment to providing the highest-quality, safest care to our patients,\u201d said Valerie Powell-Stafford, president of Saint Francis. \u201cPatient-centered care is at the forefront of our thinking at all times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Healthgrades evaluates hospitals annually based on risk-adjusted mortality and complication rates across more than 30 common conditions and procedures, analyzing data from roughly 4,500 hospitals nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The rankings are based solely on patient outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>The organization said its 2026 analysis found significant performance gaps between top- and lower-performing hospitals. <\/p>\n<p>If all hospitals performed at the level of five-star facilities from 2022 to 2024, an estimated 230,466 lives could have been saved and 156,797 complications avoided among Medicare patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHealthgrades\u2019 specialty awards identify the nation\u2019s top-performing hospitals in key service areas,\u201d said Alana Biggers, a medical advisor at Healthgrades. \u201cWe\u2019re proud to recognize Saint Francis Hospital for its consistently superior outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hospital officials said the recognitions reinforce Saint Francis\u2019 standing as a leading provider of specialty care in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Healthgrades directs consumers to its <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.healthgrades.com\/right-care\/patient-advocate\/specialty-excellence-awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Specialty Excellence Patient Advocate Center<\/a> for more information on its methodology and hospital rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARTFORD, CT \u2014 Saint Francis Hospital has received multiple national recognitions from Healthgrades for its performance in orthopedic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-561618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}