Spruce Pine’s Blue Ridge Regional Hospital earned a five-star rating in the most recent Overall Hospital Quality Ratings by the Centers for Medicare/Medicaid, which ranks more than 3,000 hospitals.
The Centers for Medicare/Medicaid recently updated its Overall Hospital Quality Ratings for 2023, recognizing Spruce Pine’s Blue Ridge Regional Hospital with a prestigious five-star rating.
The ratings are created by CMS to reflect the overall quality available at a particular hospital and are used to rank more than 3,000 US hospitals using this system.
Blue Ridge Regional Hospital is one of three hospitals in the Mission Health system to receive the honor— Mission Hospital McDowell and Transylvania Regional Hospital are the other two, and they are among only 483 hospitals across the country to receive five stars.
CMS assigns star ratings to hospitals based on their performance across five quality categories including mortality, safety of care, readmission, patient experience and timely and effective care. A five-star rating means that a facility ranks “much above average.”
“I am so proud of every member of our Blue Ridge Regional Hospital team,” said Tonia Hale, CEO of Blue Ridge Regional Hospital. “This recognition by CMS reinforces our team’s dedication to the care and improvement of human life and the high-quality care we deliver to our community every day.”