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At Fresenius Helios, our commitment is to provide the highest medical quality and care. We aim to offer advanced and proven best-in-class diagnosis and treatment methods for the benefit of our patients. We continuously invest in high-quality, state-of-the-art medicine, and aim to measure and improve the quality of medical care.

Our target ist that our quality indicators should be better than the German average. With a mortality rate of SMR < 1, this was accomplished, among others, for major illnesses shown below.

HELIOS QUALITY INDICATORS
Indications/ standardized mortality rate (SMR)*	2008 SMR	2007 SMR
Acute myocardial infarction	0.73	0.79
Heart failure	0.73	0.85
Stroke	0.83	1.01
Acute cerebral infarction	0.81	0.99
Pneumonia	0.71	0.85