Healthgrades Recognizes Mount Carmel New Albany as National Leader in Specialty Care
October 29, 2024
Columbus, Ohio – October 22, 2024 – Mount Carmel New Albany announced today that it has achieved numerous accolades for clinical excellence from Healthgrades, the #1 site Americans use when searching for a doctor or hospital. Among Mount Carmel New Albany’s distinctions is the Healthgrades Joint Replacement Excellence Award for the twelfth year in a row, placing the hospital among the nation’s top 10% for joint replacement.
In addition, Mount Carmel New Albany was also the recipient of Healthgrades outpatient joint replacement excellence award, placing the hospital in the top 5% in the nation for outpatient joint replacement two years in a row. Mount Carmel New Albany was also rated five stars for five services, including total knee replacement, total hip replacement, spinal fusion surgery, outpatient total knee replacement, and outpatient total hip replacement.
On top of these specialty care awards, Mount Carmel New Albany was also recognized with the Patient Safety Excellence Award for the eleventh year in a row and was named among the top 5% in the nation for patient safety eleven years in a row.
“Receiving these prestigious awards for both orthopedics and patient safety excellence is a tremendous honor for our team,” said Diane Doucette, Mount Carmel New Albany President. “These recognitions reflect our unwavering commitment to delivering exceptional care.”
To identify the top-performing hospitals for the most common outpatient procedures and conditions, Healthgrades focused exclusively on what matters most: patient outcomes. As part of its 2025 analysis, Healthgrades analyzed risk-adjusted mortality and complication rates at short-term acute care facilities nationwide that perform critical orthopedic procedures in an outpatient environment. Healthgrades found that patients treated at hospitals with nationally recognized outpatient programs have a demonstrably better chance of a positive outcome than those treated at hospitals that were not recognized for outpatient excellence. From 2021 through 2023, if all hospitals as a group, performed similarly to hospitals receiving five stars as a group, on average, 35,563 complications could potentially have been avoided.*
“Year after year, Mount Carmel New Albany delivers consistently superior clinical outcomes to patients undergoing critical procedures in an outpatient environment,” said Brad Bowman, MD, chief medical officer and head of data science at Healthgrades. “Healthgrades is proud to recognize Mount Carmel New Albany as a national leader in specialty care and a choice hospital for outpatient surgery in Ohio.”
As outpatient surgical volumes continue to grow, Healthgrades is proud to offer the industry’s only outcomes-based outpatient ratings to help patients identify the best care for their needs. To learn more about how Healthgrades measures hospital quality, visit healthgrades.com.
*Statistics are based on Healthgrades analysis of SAF data for years 2021 through 2023 and represent three-year estimates for Medicare patients only. For more information on how Healthgrades identifies the nation’s top hospitals for outpatient orthopedic surgery, see the 2025 Outpatient Awards and Ratings Methodology.
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About Mount Carmel Health System
Mount Carmel Health System, a member of Trinity Health, has provided high-quality, comprehensive healthcare services in central Ohio for more than 135 years. Our team of more than 8,200 colleagues, 1,920 physicians and 420 volunteers provide compassionate, people-centered primary and specialty care at its five hospitals — Mount Carmel East, Mount Carmel Grove City, Mount Carmel New Albany, Mount Carmel St. Ann’s and Diley Ridge Medical Center, an affiliation of Mount Carmel and Fairfield Medical Center. The health system is also comprised of the Mount Carmel Health Plan, Mount Carmel College of Nursing, Mount Carmel Medical Group and Mount Carmel Health Partners, along with surgery centers, emergency and ambulatory care centers, and hospice and home care services throughout the region.
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