Health Matters: Providence St. Jude Medical Center | 11
The number of recent national honors from Healthgrades, ranging
from America's 100 Best Hospitals to the No. 1 hospital in the state
for stroke outcomes. The distinctions from Healthgrades, a leader in
health care measurement, covered the entire spectrum of care and
included naming us one of the countr y 's top hospitals in orthopedics,
critical care, cardiac, neurosciences and surger y.
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Providence St. Jude was the first hospital in Orange County to offer
PET/CT technology, allowing our physicians to precisely overlay the
metabolic and cellular information offered by a PET scan with the detailed
anatomic data of a CT—giving us the ability to identify cancer and disease
more accurately than ever before.
Thanks to a generous community, each new generation of this technology
continues to call St. Jude home: most recently, the GE Discovery MI
Gen 2. This breakthrough technology dramatically increases resolution—
improving our ability to detect very small lesions by over 40%—while
lowering exposure to radiation, advancing treatment planning and
allowing our physicians to pursue next-generation clinical applications.
When
the details
are all
that matter
