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Summit Health, is not only Franklin County, Pennsylvania’s leading healthcare provider, but the largest employer in the county. As a non-profit organization, Summit Health works to improve the health of the community through leading-edge medical technology, skilled physicians, caring staff, and convenient locations.
The organization’s comprehensive selection of services and providers includes two award-winning hospitals, family physicians, specialty practices, lab and imaging services, a breast care center, cancer treatment, two urgent care centers, a plastic surgery practice, and more.
Chambersburg Hospital, a 248 bed-facility in the heart of Franklin County, Chambersburg Hospital received the Healthgrades 2017 Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence™. The distinction recognizes Chambersburg Hospital as ranking in the top five percent of more than 4,500 hospitals nationwide for its clinical performance as measured by Healthgrades, the leading online resource for comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals. Chambersburg Hospital is the only hospital in the state of Pennsylvania to receive both the 2017 Healthgrades Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence and the 2016 Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award.
Waynesboro Hospital, located 16 miles south of Chambersburg, consistently receives national recognition for patient safety, quality, and patient experience. In both 2016 and 2017, Waynesboro Hospital was been named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals® by Truven Health Analytics™, part of the IBM Watson Health™ business. Truven Health Analytics is a leading provider of information and solutions that support health care cost and quality improvement. The Truven Health 100 Top Hospitals is the most comprehensive, academically driven study of its kind. It evaluates clinical and operational performance in 11 areas, addressing: inpatient mortality; 30-day mortality rate; complications; core measures; 30-day risk-adjusted readmission rate; severity-adjusted average length of stay; mean emergency room throughput; inpatient expense per discharge; Medicare spend per beneficiary; adjusted operating profit margin; and Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare providers and Systems (HCAHPS) score (patient rating of overall hospital performance. Waynesboro Hospital is also regularly honored for its high-quality care and is a certified stroke center, earning the Get With The Guidelines® – Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award in 2015 and 2016 from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.