Company: UHS
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-049925
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Company: UNIVERSAL HEALTH SERVICES INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form: DEF 14A
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 of the quality and patient care highlights achieved in 2024:

Acute Care Services:

The Leapfrog Group is an independent organization which analyzes quality and safety data and published this data to inform consumers about the safety of healthcare. Twenty of the twenty-five of our acute care hospitals evaluated earned an "A" or "B" safety grade from The Leapfrog Group during 2024 Fall and/or Spring ratings. Lakewood Ranch Medical Center was bestowed the Top Teaching Hospital Award in Fall 2024.

In 2024, St. Mary's Regional Medical Center earned its fourth consecutive World's Best Hospitals award from Newsweek and Statista.

The George Washington University Hospital and South Texas Health System ("STHS") each earned U.S. News and World Report's 2024-2025 Best Regional Hospital badges. STHS was also named Best Regional hospital for Equitable Access. Collectively, 24 of our acute care hospitals earned 67 High Performing awards for procedures/conditions and 6 awards for specialties.

Lakewood Ranch Medical Center, Corona Regional Medical Center and Southwest Healthcare Rancho Springs Hospital earned U.S. News and World Report's 2025 High Performing Hospital and Maternity Care (uncomplicated pregnancy); the highest accolade for this category.

For the third consecutive year, Lakewood Ranch Medical Center was named among Newsweek's and Statista's list of America's Best Maternity Hospitals in 2024.

During 2024, our acute care hospitals delivered nearly $3.5 billion in uncompensated care.

Behavioral Health Care Services:

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Quality Reporting measures compare our behavioral health care facilities to approximately 1,600 providers in the U.S. Our 2024 behavioral health results exceed the national average in 8 out of 11 indicators. These measures are publicly available.

In 2024, patients in our behavioral health care facilities rated their satisfaction with their overall care, on average, as 4.4 out of 5 in our patient satisfaction surveys. More than 91% of our patients indicated they felt better following care at one of our facilities; and 89% of our patients indicated that their treatment goals were met.

As indicated in our referral source satisfaction survey, 84% of our referral sources consider our behavioral health care facilities as their provider of choice while scoring a 4 out of 5 on all questions asked and a 4.2 on overall quality of patient care.

In 2020, our behavioral health care