Truven Health Analytics Announces 100 Top Hospitals Winners

Truven Health Analytics, formerly the healthcare business of Thomson Reuters, has released its annual study identifying the 100 top U.S. hospitals based on their overall organizational performance.

The Truven Health 100 Top Hospitals study evaluates performance in 10 areas: mortality; medical complications; patient safety; average patient stay; expenses; profitability; patient satisfaction; adherence to clinical standards of care; and post-discharge mortality and readmission rates for acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), heart failure, and pneumonia. The study is celebrating its 20th year, and has been conducted annually since 1993.

“The winners of the 100 Top Hospitals award have driven the national benchmarks higher?every year for 20 years. The key to success in a tumultuous environment is visionary?leadership that develops and maintains a hospital-wide culture of excellence that cuts across?everything, from patient care to housekeeping to administration,” said Jean Chenoweth, senior?vice president at Truven Health Analytics. “These leaders continue to demonstrate their vision?of excellence when it comes to adopting new technologies and techniques. I congratulate this year’s winners for their achievement.”

For the fifth year, Truven Health Analytics is also recognizing the 100 Top Hospitals Everest Award winners — those hospitals among the 100 winners that delivered the greatest rate of improvement over five years. This year, there are 16 Everest Award winners.

To conduct the 100 Top Hospitals study, Truven Health researchers evaluated 2,922 short-term, acute-care, non-federal hospitals. They 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 (CMS) Hospital Compare website. Hospitals do not apply, and winners do not pay to market this honor.

Based on the results of this year’s study, if all Medicare inpatients received the same level of care as those treated in the award- winning facilities:

• More than 164,000 additional lives could be saved.
• Nearly 82,000 additional patients could be complication free.
• $6 billion could be saved.
• The average patient stay would decrease by half a day.

If the same standards were applied to all inpatients, the impact would be even greater. For more information, visit www.100tophospitals.com.

For a list of all the winning hospitals, by category, visit http://www.100tophospitals.com/top-national-hospitals/.