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St. John’s Receives 100 Top Hospital Recognition from Thomson Reuters
5/15/2009
Joplin, Mo. – St. John’s Regional Medical Center has recently been named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals® by Thomson Reuters, a leading provider of information and solutions to improve the cost and quality of healthcare. We will celebrate this latest award on May 19 at 10:30 a.m. in the Main Lobby.
The award recognizes hospitals that have achieved excellence in clinical outcomes, patient safety, patient satisfaction, financial performance, and operational efficiency. This is the second time St. John’s has been recognized with this honor.
“We are extremly pleased to have again been recognized as a 100 Top Hospital. St. John’s is well-known for our excellence in patient care and this award is confirmation of the work that we do,” said George Caralis, Interim President and CEO.
The winners were identified through an in-depth analysis, the Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals®: National Benchmarks study. The study evaluated 3,000 short-term, acute care, non-federal hospitals 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 winning hospitals were announced in the March 30 edition of Modern Healthcare magazine.
“The 100 Top Hospitals winners raised the bar again this year, delivering a higher level of reliable care and greater value for their communities,” said Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president for performance improvement and 100 Top Hospitals programs at Thomson Reuters.
If all Medicare inpatients received the same level of care as Medicare patients treated in the winning hospitals:
- 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.
More information on this study and other 100 Top Hospitals research is available at www.100tophospitals.com.
Media Contact:
David Wilkins
Thomson Reuters 734.913.3397
david.wilkins@thomsonreuters.com
**We would like to invite all media to attend our celebration in the Main Lobby May 19 at 10:30 a.m.
St. John’s Regional Medical Center has been leading the way in healthcare throughout the four-state area for more than 100 years. We are a 367-bed facility, serving 19 counties in Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Arkansas. We provide state-of-the-art healthcare services, specializing in cardiology, orthopedics, neurosciences, and oncology. St. John’s has earned the Gold Seal of Approval from the Joint Commission. Additionally, we have been recognized by Thomson Healthcare with three 100 Top Hospital Awards (2006) and rated in the top 10% nationally by HealthGrades for critical care (2009).