UT Southwestern Medical Center’s William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital has delivered impressive clinical service in its first year of service while also receiving several performance-based national honors.

The 12-floor, 460-bed hospital – which opened on Dec. 6, 2014 – was planned and built with quality, safety, and efficiency as top priorities, by incorporating patient-driven design elements that directly contribute to also enhancing the expertise of UT Southwestern.

Clements University Hospital has quickly established a significant clinical service mark on Dallas and its surrounding communities. Through the end of October – the last reporting month prior to Clements University Hospital’s one-year anniversary – the medical staff and employees had worked more than 5.68 million hours in delivering skilled, compassionate care to patients. In the hospital’s first 11 months, more than 23,000 patients were admitted for treatment, more than 41,600 ill or injured people came to the Emergency Department, more than 17,500 cases (including about 200 solid organ transplants) were performed by UT Southwestern surgeons, and more than 1,600 babies were delivered.

UT Southwestern’s hospitals – Clements and Zale Lipshy University Hospital – have received national recognitions. The most recent award for Clements University Hospital came in late November, when The Joint Commission identified the facility as a Top Performer. The designation recognizes accredited hospitals that achieve a 95 percent or above on numerous safety and quality accountability measures.

Clements University Hospital also ­recently received a national Rising Star Quality Leadership award from the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) for the hospital’s quality and safety efforts. That award recognizes exemplary performance in patient safety, mortality, clinical effectiveness, and equity of care among academic medical centers. UT Southwestern now ranks within in the top 20.

In addition, UT Southwestern is on the national “Most Wired” hospitals list for a fifth consecutive year, thanks to its use of such technologies as databases to help physicians better identify high-risk patients and tools that keep physicians, nurses, and patients communicating effectively. The “Most Wired” list is distributed annually by Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, the flagship publication of the American Hospital Association. In addition, UT Southwestern has been ranked one of the “Most Connected Hospitals” for 2015-2016 by U.S. News & World Report, which recognizes U.S. hospitals that demonstrated an ability to share data with providers, improved patient safety through computerization, and engaged patients by providing them with electronic access to their medical information. UT Southwestern is one of just 10 hospitals in Texas to make the list.

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