Reuters’ Top 100 Hospitals
The Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals National Benchmarks study unveiled its latest list this week, many of them returning honorees mixed with a few new names. The Reuters study is based on the National Balanced Scorecard that evaluates performance in nine areas: mortality, medical complications, patient safety, average length of stay, expenses, profitability, cash-to-debt ratio, patient satisfaction, and adherence to clinical standards of care. The study has been conducted annually since 1993.
“The 100 Top Hospitals winners raised the bar again this year, delivering a higher level of reliable care and greater value for their communities and payers,” said Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president for performance improvement and 100 Top Hospitals programs at Thomson Reuters.
To conduct the 100 Top Hospitals study, Thomson Reuters researchers chose 3,000 short-term, acute care, non-federal hospitals to evaluate. Researchers used public information — Medicare cost reports, Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR) data, and core measures and patient satisfaction data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital Compare data set.
A few quick facts- If the treatment at these winning hospitals was provided to every Medicare inpatient across the nation:
— More than 107,500 additional patients would survive each year.
— Nearly 132,000 patient complications would be avoided annually.
— Expenses would decline by $5.9 billion a year.
— The average patient stay would decrease by nearly half a day.
To read the full list of winners, click here.
This information was provided by Fox Business.
Caitlin Houston
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