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Parkland long among Texas' worst hospitals for patient safety, analysis shows

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Hospital	Composite score	Death in Low Mortality Diagnoses	Death among surgical inpatients with serious treatable complications	Iatrogenic Pneumothorax	Post-operative respiratory failure	Post-operative pulminary embolism or deep-vein thrombosis	Post-operative wound dehiscence	Accidental punctures and lacerations in surgery
Abilene Regional Medical Center Abilene, Texas
Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas Beaumont, Texas
Baptist Medical Center - Northeast San Antonio, Texas
Baptist St. Anthony's Health System - Baptist Campus Amarillo, Texas
Baylor All Saints Medical Center at Fort Worth Fort Worth, Texas
Baylor Medical Center at Carrollton Carrollton, Texas
Baylor Medical Center at Garland Garland, Texas
Baylor Medical Center at Irving Irving, Texas
Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine Grapevine, Texas
Baylor University Medical Center Dallas, Texas
Bayshore Medical Center Pasadena, Texas
Ben Taub General Hospital Houston, Texas
CHRISTUS Hospital Beaumont, Texas
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital San Antonio, Texas
CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi Corpus Christi, Texas
Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi Shoreline Corpus Christi, Texas
Christus St. Michael Health System Texarkana, Texas
Citizens Medical Center Victoria, Texas
Clear Lake Regional Medical Center Webster, Texas
Conroe Regional Medical Center Conroe, Texas
Covenant Medical Center Lubbock, Texas
Dallas Regional Medical Center Mesquite, Texas
Del Sol Medical Center El Paso, Texas
Denton Regional Medical Center Denton, Texas
DeTar Hospitals Victoria, Texas
Doctors Hospital at White Rock Lake Dallas, Texas
East Texas Medical Center Tyler Tyler, Texas
Good Shepherd Medical Center Longview, Texas
Hendrick Medical Center Abilene, Texas
Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center Waco, Texas
Houston Northwest Medical Center Houston, Texas
Huguley Memorial Medical Center Fort Worth, Texas
John Peter Smith Hospital Fort Worth, Texas
Kingwood Medical Center Kingwood, Texas
Knapp Medical Center Weslaco, Texas
Laredo Medical Center Laredo, Texas
Las Palmas Medical Center El Paso, Texas
Mainland Medical Center Texas City, Texas
Medical Center Hospital Odessa, Texas
Medical Center of Arlington Arlington, Texas
Medical Center of Lewisville Lewisville, Texas
Medical Center of Plano Plano, Texas
Medical City Dallas Hospital Dallas, Texas
Memorial Hermann Memorial City Hospital Houston, Texas
Memorial Hermann Northeast Humble, Texas
Memorial Hermann Northwest Hospital Houston, Texas
Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital Houston, Texas
Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital Houston, Texas
Memorial Hermann - Texas Medical Center Houston, Texas
Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital The Woodlands, Texas
Memorial Medical Center Lufkin Lufkin, Texas
Methodist Charlton Medical Center Dallas, Texas
Methodist Dallas Medical Center Dallas, Texas
Methodist Hospital San Antonio, Texas
Methodist Willowbrook Hospital Houston, Texas
Midland Memorial Hospital Midland, Texas
Mission Regional Medical Center Mission, Texas
Mother Frances Hospital Tyler, Texas
Nix Health San Antonio, Texas
Northwest Texas Hospital Amarillo, Texas
Paris Regional Medical Center South Campus Paris, Texas
Parkland Memorial Hospital Dallas, Texas
Park Plaza Hospital Houston, Texas
Plaza Medical Center of Fort Worth Fort Worth, Texas
Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas Dallas, Texas
Providence Health Center Waco, Texas
Providence Memorial Hospital El Paso, Texas
Rio Grande Regional Hospital McAllen, Texas
Scott and White Memorial Hospital Temple, Texas
Seton Medical Center Austin Austin, Texas
Shannon Medical Center San Angelo, Texas
Sierra Medical Center El Paso, Texas
South Texas Health System Dba Edinburg Regional Medical Center Edinburg, Texas
Southwest General Hospital San Antonio, Texas
Spring Branch Medical Center Houston, Texas
St. David's Medical Center Austin, Texas
St. David's North Austin Medical Center Austin, Texas
St. David's South Austin Medical Center Austin, Texas
St. Joseph Medical Center Houston, Texas
St. Joseph Regional Health Center Bryan, Texas
St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital Houston, Texas
Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital Arlington, Texas
Texas Health Harris Methodist Fort Worth Fort Worth, Texas
Texas Health Harris Methodist HEB Bedford, Texas
Texas Health Harris Methodist Southwest Fort Worth Fort Worth, Texas
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Denton Denton, Texas
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Plano Plano, Texas
The Medical Center of Southeast Texas Port Arthur, Texas
The Methodist Hospital Houston, Texas
The Woman's Hospital of Texas Houston, Texas
Tomball Regional Hospital Tomball, Texas
United Regional Health Care System Wichita Falls, Texas
University Hospital San Antonio, Texas
University Medical Center Lubbock, Texas
University Medical Center at Brackenridge Austin, Texas
University Medical Center of El Paso El Paso, Texas
University of Texas Medical Branch Hospital Galveston, Texas
UT Southwestern University Hospital-St Paul Dallas, Texas
Valley Baptist Medical Center Harlingen, Texas
Valley Baptist Medical Center - Brownsville Brownsville, Texas
Valley Regional Medical Center Brownsville, Texas
Wadley Regional Medical Center Texarkana, Texas
West Houston Medical Center Houston, Texas
Wilson N. Jones Medical Center Sherman, Texas

Source: Dallas Morning News analysis of Texas Department of State Health Services 2009 hospital discharge data.

Performance category calculated based on 95 percent confidence interval vs. average state rate among all patients at large, full-service hospitals. Hospitals considered average if their rates are within the margin-of-error of the average.