1900 Silver Cross Blvd.100 Top Hospitals National Award Winner
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100 Top Hospitals National Award Winner
For the 7th straight year, Silver Cross Hospital was named one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals by Thomson Reuters Healthcare, a leading provider of information and solutions to improve the cost and quality of healthcare.
The award recognizes hospitals that have achieved excellence in
- Clinical outcomes
- Patient safety
- Patient satisfaction
- Financial performance
- Operational efficiency
According to Thomson Reuters Healthcare:
- Silver Cross is the only hospital in Illinois to win the award every year for the last 7 years.
- Only 4 hospitals in the nation have been recognized as a "100 Top Hospitals" winner for the last 7 consecutive years.
- 40 of the nation's 5,800 hospitals have received the award 7 or more times.
An Important Award
The 100 Top award looks at hospital-wide performance and is based on objective data that measures excellence across 10 areas:
- Mortality
- Medical complications
- Patient safety
- Average patient stay
- Expenses
- Profitability
- Patient satisfaction
- Adherence to clinical standards of care
- Post-discharge mortality
- Readmission rates for acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), heart failure, and pneumonia.
Hospitals don't apply for and winners pay to market the honor.
If all Medicare patients received the same level of care as patients treated at 100 Top Hospital winners:
- 116,000 additional patients would survive each year
- About 197,000 patient complications would be avoided
- Expense per adjusted discharge would drop by $462
- The average patient stay would decrease by nearly half a day.
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What does this award mean for Silver Cross patients and the community?
- Higher survival rates
- Fewer complications
- A safer environment
- Higher patient satisfaction.