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Think Healthy | August - September 2009
St. John’s Receives 100 TOP Hospital Recognition
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 health care.
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 extremely 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,” says 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, nonfederal hospitals in nine areas:
- Mortality
- Medical complications
- Patient safety
- Average length of stay
- Expenses
- Profitability
- Cash-to-debt ratio
- Patient satisfaction
- 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,” says 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.