Thomson Reuters released its annual study identifying the 100 top U.S. hospitals based on their overall organizational performance and five Florida hospitals are on the list.
Of the five hospitals, one fall into the “teaching hospital” category, three in the “large community hospitals” group and one in the “medium community hospitals” category.
Teaching Hospital
Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston
Large Community Hospitals (250 or more acute-care beds)
Memorial Hospital West, Pembroke Pines
Martin Memorial Medical Center, Stuart
Venice Regional Medical Center, Venice
Medium Community Hospital (100-249 acute care beds)
Memorial Hospital Miramar, Miramar
The Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals®: National Benchmarks study evaluates performance in 10 areas: mortality, medical complications, patient safety, average length of stay, expenses, profitability, patient satisfaction, adherence to clinical standards of care, and post-discharge mortality and readmission rates for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia. The study has been conducted annually since 1993.
“This year’s study magnified the value that 100 Top Hospital award winners provide to their communities. Even during the economic downturn, the 100 Top Hospitals maintained a profit from operations while raising the bar for clinical quality and patient satisfaction,” said Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president for performance improvement and 100 Top Hospitals programs at Thomson Reuters. “The insistence of these hospitals’ leaders — their boards, executive teams and medical staffs — on overall excellence makes the difference.”
For the second year, Thomson Reuters also is recognizing the 100 Top Hospitals Everest Award winners — those hospitals among the 100 winners that delivered the greatest rate of improvement over a five-year period. This year, there are 23 Everest award winners. None of Florida’s hospitals was selected among the 23.
To conduct the 100 Top Hospitals study, Thomson Reuters researchers evaluated 2,926 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 data set.
If all Medicare inpatients received the same level of care as those treated in these 100 Top Hospitals award winners:
—Â More than 98,000 additional patients would survive each year.
—Â More than 197,000 patient complications would be avoided annually.
—Â Expenses would decline by an aggregate $5.5 billion a year.
—Â The average patient stay would decrease by nearly half a day.
If the same standards were applied to all inpatients, the impact would be even greater.
Among the list of 23 Everest Award winners are: Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center—Chicago, IL; Northwestern Memorial Hospital—Chicago, IL; Providence Hospital and Medical Center—Southfield, MI; and Vanderbilt University Medical Center—Nashville, TN.
