August 3, 2023 4:40 p.m.  

On Thursday, the Roseburg VA Health Care System announced that it received a 5-star rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

A release said this is the first time CMS has included VA facilities in their Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings.

The CMS uses five categories – mortality, safety of care, readmission, patient experience, and timely and effective care – to award a quality rating for each hospital. The more stars, the better a hospital performed on the available quality measures.

Overall, sixty-seven percent of VA hospitals included in the CMS Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings received either four or five stars, compared to only forty-one percent of non-VA hospitals. These findings are the latest in a series of recent evaluations showing the effectiveness of VA health care compared to non-VA health care.

The release said VA hospitals outperformed non-VA hospitals on all ten core patient satisfaction metrics in the recent Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Star Ratings. A recent systematic review of more than forty peer-reviewed studies found that VA health care is consistently as good as- or better than -non-VA health care.

Medical Center Director Patrick Hull said, “The Roseburg VA has a championship team with one focus – providing the right care at the right time in the right place”. Hull said, “It’s important to us that Veterans know when they visit a Roseburg VA Health Care System Facility, they are receiving a 5-star experience that matches or even surpasses the quality of care at community hospitals”. Hull said, “I am honored to collaborate with our dedicated employees and volunteers who consistently deliver this high level of quality care”.

For more information, go to: https://www.va.gov/roseburg-health-care/