Reading Hospital and Medical Center

Ranked #34 in Pennsylvania

Recognized in Northeastern Pennsylvania/Lehigh Valley

Reading Hospital and Medical Center is a general medical and surgical hospital in West Reading, PA. It performed nearly at the level of nationally ranked U.S. News Best Hospitals in 2 adult specialties, as shown below. It scored high in patient safety, demonstrating commitment to reducing accidents and medical mistakes. Reading Hospital and Medical Center has 711 beds. The hospital had 28,887 admissions in the latest year for which data are available. It performed 9,031 annual inpatient and 9,615 outpatient surgeries. Its emergency room had 110,283 visits. Reading Hospital and Medical Center is a teaching hospital. It is also accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF).

Adult Specialties

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Patient Satisfaction

Under a federal program, most U.S. hospitals now sample recently discharged patients and ask them about their stay. In a year's worth of surveys, here's how this hospital's patients responded to a key question, along with averages within the state and nationally.

Average

Whether patients would recommend the hospital to friends and family:

Definitely
70%
State Average
67%
National Average
70%
Probably or definitely not
5%
State Average
5%
National Average
5%

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Details

For more about this hospital, see hospital details. The information shown is provided by the American Hospital Association, which compiles data on all U.S. hospitals through an annual survey and from other sources. Hospital ownership, number of doctors and nurses, volume of births and ER visits, and available services such as sports medicine are just a few examples of data collected by the AHA. Find out more at www.ahadata.com.

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Contact

Reading Hospital and Medical Center

Sixth Avenue and Spruce Street

West Reading, PA 19611-1428

(610) 988–8000

www.readinghospital.org

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