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awards of excellence for
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Research Highlights
The nation’s top performing hospitals are more likely to adopt
important new patient care technologies and treat a larger
percentage of people in their communities than other acute care U.S.
hospitals. In fact, if all acute care hospitals performed at the
same level as the nation’s top hospitals, 84,000 more Medicare
patients could survive and an additional 54,000 patient stays could
be complication free each year - at an estimated annual savings of
$10 billion.
"The exceptional performance of the 100 Top Hospitals award
winners brings real value to their communities," said Jean
Chenoweth, executive director of Solucient’s 100 Top Hospitals
program. "Spurred by the use of new medical technologies, these
hospitals offer patients higher survival rates, more
complication-free care, and more efficient delivery of care than
other hospitals."
Among the key findings:
- Winning or "benchmark" hospitals are more likely to be early
adopters of new diagnostic and therapeutic technologies than
non-winning or "peer" hospitals.
- In addition, benchmark hospitals are more likely than their
peers to administer newer drugs to ischemic stroke patients or
those undergoing coronary balloon angioplasty surgery.
- Benchmark hospitals are also more likely to have a larger
share of the market in their communities than their peers,
particularly in specialties such as cardiology, neurology,
pulmonary, urology, and gastroenterology.
- 84,374 more Medicare patients could survive each year if
overall performance at peer hospitals was the same as at the 100
Top Hospitals in the nation. An additional 53,500 patients could
avoid complications. Between 1997 and 2001, the unadjusted
survival rate at benchmark hospitals increased nearly one
percent compared to just over one-half a percentage point in
peer hospitals.
Among the study’s other findings:
- Benchmark hospitals had expenses per discharge that were
nearly 19 percent lower than their peers ($3,795 benchmark
versus $4,677 peer).
- The average operating profit margin for winning hospitals
was 7 percent, compared with 2 percent for non-winners.
- Patients at winning hospitals return to everyday life faster
than those at non-winning hospitals. These patients were
released a third of a day more quickly than at peer hospitals.
- Winning hospitals employ 20 percent fewer staff (per 100
patient discharges), but treat more – and sicker – patients than
non-winning hospitals. Patient case mix at benchmark hospitals
was 16 percent higher than peer hospitals. Benchmark hospitals
also had 20 percent more admissions per bed.
The tenth edition of the Solucient 100 Top Hospitals:
Benchmarks for Success study analyzed acute care hospitals
nationwide using detailed empirical performance data from 2001,
including publicly available Medicare MEDPAR data and Medicare
cost reports. The measures were calculated for five classes of
hospitals with the following number of winners in each:
Major Teaching - 16 winners*
Teaching - 25 winners
Large Community, 250+ Beds - 21 winners*
(LMHS)
Medium Community, 100 to 249 Beds - 20 winners
Small Community, 25 to 99 Beds - 20 winners
*Denotes a tie
The study scored facilities according to key measures:
risk-adjusted mortality and risk adjusted complications, average
length of stay, expenses, profitability, percent of outpatient
revenue, total asset turnover, and coding specificity.
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