Chesterfield, Mo., August 1 Day, 2022 – CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) updated its Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings for 2022, giving only 429 hospitals a rating of five stars.

CMS assigned star ratings to hospitals nationwide based on their performance across five quality categories. This year:

• 192 hospitals received a one-star rating
• 692 hospitals received a two-star rating
• 890 hospitals received a three-star rating
• 890 received a four-star rating
• 429 received a five-star rating

St. Louis Area Hospitals:

St. Luke's Hospital (Chesterfield)

Mercy Hospital St. Louis

Missouri Baptist Medical Center (Town and Country)

From CMS.gov

Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings Overview

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), along with key stakeholders, developed methodology to calculate and display overall hospital-level quality using a star rating system.

The overarching goal of the Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating (Overall Star Rating) is to improve the usability and interpretability of information posted on Care Compare, a website designed for consumers to use along with their healthcare provider to make decisions on where to receive care. CMS developed this methodology with the input of a broad array of stakeholders to summarize results of many measures currently publicly reported. The Overall Star Rating provides consumers with an overall rating generated by combining multiple dimensions of quality into a single summary score.

CMS is committed to supporting hospitals throughout implementation and encourages hospitals to review their results and to ask questions.

For each hospital, a hospital summary score is calculated by taking the weighted average of the hospital’s scores for each measure group.

The table below shows the weight applied to each measure group:

National distribution of the Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating

The following table shows the national distribution of the Overall Star Rating based on July 2022 results:

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About St. Luke’s Hospital:

St. Luke’s Hospital is an independent, nonprofit healthcare provider committed to improving the quality of life for its patients and the community. Since its founding in 1866,

St. Luke’s has grown from a single hospital location to an advanced network of care providing personalized healthcare services in more than 60 specialty areas at its 493-bed hospital in Chesterfield, Mo. and 143-bed St. Luke’s Des Peres Hospital. It also offers about 30 other locations across the greater St. Louis area, bringing quality healthcare services close to home. St. Luke’s is nationally recognized for high quality and safe care, consistently earning high patient satisfaction scores. In St. Louis, St. Luke’s is the exclusive alliance provider for the nation’s No. 1 heart hospital, the Cleveland Clinic Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute. For more information, visit stlukes-stl.com/newsroom.

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