Awards and Honors

Quality & Safety

Why Quality Matters

UTMB Health is dedicated to providing a world-class patient experience for our patients by delivering the most advanced care and providing the highest level of safety in our hospitals and clinics so patients can have the best possible outcomes.

Quality of care rankings and awards help patients make informed decisions on which health care providers deliver the highest quality of care in a safe environment.  While recognition for our ongoing efforts to deliver the best care is nice, the true value of quality of care rankings and awards is helping patients decide with confidence where to seek care.

Quality & Safety

  • What UTMB’s commitment to safety and quality of care means for our patients:

    Best Care

    Delivering the right care, at the right time, in the right way, for the right person – and have the best possible results – every patient, every time.

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    Patient Safety

    Avoiding complications and adverse events, like bed sores, blood infections or clots, and surgical infections, following surgeries, procedures and childbirth.

    Patient Outcomes

    Lower readmission rates, average length of hospital stay, frequency of complications, and mortality rates.

    Comprehensive Care

    Providing the complete spectrum of care with treatments by leading specialists.

    Better Access

    An integrated system of care with primary and specialty clinic locations and hospitals close to where you live, work and play.

2019 Get with the Guidelines - Stroke

Stroke program 2019 success

GALVESTON, Texas – UTMB was awarded with the American Heart Association's (AHA) Gold Plus Stroke and Target Stroke Elite Plus Honor Roll. The AHA Get With The Guidelines program is a continuous quality improvement program developed with the goal to save lives by measuring hospitals' adherence to secondary prevention guidelines (pharmacological and lifestyle interventions) for coronary artery disease, heart failure and stroke. 

The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence.

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