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Quality and Safety at Spaulding Hospital Cambridge

Spaulding Hospital Cambridge Achieves Prestigious Magnet Nursing Designation for First Time

After a several-year journey, we are proud to announce we have achieved Magnet accreditation from The American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet Recognition Program®. Spaulding Hospital Cambridge becomes the second post-acute hospital and the first Long Term Acute Care (LTAC) level hospital in New England to earn the distinction, joining a select group of just 9.4 percent of hospitals nationwide. Read more >

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Spaulding Hospital Cambridge provides care for patients with serious medical conditions that require intense specialized treatment for several weeks or longer. Our interdisciplinary medical team is composed of highly skilled physicians, nurses, therapists and other clinicians who work together to coordinate and provide specific individual treatments for each patient.

Patient Experience

At Spaulding Hospital Cambridge, satisfaction with your experience is a high priority. Each Spaulding facility and outpatient site seeks patient feedback to continually improve the patient experience.

Spaulding currently utilizes NRC Health to measure the quality of care provided to our patients. Through the NRC survey, we measure our patient’s willingness to recommend Spaulding to friends and family. We are proud to report that our patients rate us with excellent scores in patient experience across many metrics.

Discharge to Community

Returning to home, to a lower setting of care, or to acute care for planned ongoing treatment is an important goal for our patients and their families. The most recent data published by CMS for October 2020 – September 2022 shows that SHC ranked “better than the national rate.”

Bar chart of discharge to community rates for October 2020 to September 2022. Spaulding Hospital Cambridge averaged 46.92%, versus the U.S. rate of 18.96%.

Hospital Readmissions

Another indicator of quality care is whether patients require readmission to an acute care hospital within 30 days of discharge from SHC. The most recent data published by CMS for October 2020 – September 2022 shows that SHC ranked “better than the national rate.”

Returning to home, to a lower setting of care, or to acute care for planned ongoing treatment is an important goal for our patients and their families. The most recent data published by CMS for October 2020 – September 2022 shows that SHC ranked “better than the national rate.”    /assets/Spaulding/images/locations/cambridge-continuing-medical-care/discharge-to-community.png    Bar chart of hospital readmission rates for October 2020 to September 2022. Spaulding Hospital Cambridge averaged 12.04%, versus the U.S. rate of 19.00%.