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On behalf of all of us, our nurses, therapists, surgery technicians, other support staff and management, who collectively have made Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center (CCOC) the premier orthopaedic and plastic surgery specialty center in the region, we would like to thank you for your continued support of our services and share the published quality metrics that reect the level and quality of care, and services, we provide your patients. Unlike other publicly available quality ratings, Comparion Medical Analytics, through their CareChex division, provides a composite evaluation of all components of medical quality including process of care, outcomes of care, and patient experiences, using nationally available CMS (Medicare) data. CareChex publishes their ratings for rolling three (3) year periods, with the most recent period being FY 2012 to FY 2014. Here is how CareChex 1 ranked the Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center: The Crystal Clinic has fellowship-trained specialists in all areas of orthopaedic surgery and plastic and reconstructive surgical care. Our surgeons are leaders in the sub-specialty elds of total joint surgery, spine surgery, shoulder surgery, hand surgery, foot and ankle surgery, plastic and reconstructive surgery, and sports medicine. We perform more joint replacement surgeries (hip, knee, shoulder, elbow and ankle) and do it better in terms of infection, blood clot and transfusion rate than any hospital in the area. We have twelve (12) clinical locations in Summit, Medina and Portage Counties for patient evaluations totaling over 105,000 visits annually. In addition, Crystal Clinic physicians perform over 16,000 surgeries annually at CCOC's agship hospital at St. Thomas and its ambulatory surgery center in Montrose, and at all eight (8) other area hospitals in Summit, Medina and Portage counties. Please know that all of the physicians and employees of CCOC share your same concern for patient outcomes and satisfaction above all other rewards. This objective and the positive feedback you receive from your patients following a referral to one of our specialists enhances the continued success of your practice and of our efforts to maintain CCOC as the premier orthopaedic and plastic surgery center of excellence in Northeast Ohio. Please do not hesitate to call any of us for help in seeing one of your patients or solving one of their problems. We are your colleagues and partners dedicated to providing the best orthopaedic and plastic surgery care available anywhere, and doing it right here in Summit, Medina and Portage counties. Major Orthopaedic Surgery Joint Replacement Spinal Surgery Overall Surgical Care # 1 - Northeast Ohio 2 # 2 - Ohio # 10 - U.S. 3 1 CareChex is one of the nation's largest privately-held healthcare information services companies (see carechex.com) 2 Northeast Ohio includes 37 hospitals 3 U.S. includes 4,500 hospitals across the country #1 Ranked Orthopaedic Care Refer to the in Northeast Ohio # 1 - Northeast Ohio 2 # 2 - Ohio # 9 - U.S. 3 # 1 - Northeast Ohio 2 # 4 - Ohio # 63 - U.S. 3 # 1 - Northeast Ohio 2 # 3 - Ohio # 38 - U.S. 3 CrystalClinic.com • (888) 341-9581