100 Top Hospitals National Award Winner
For the 6th 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
- Patient Outcomes
- Patient Safety
- National Treatment Standards (core measures)
- Patient Satisfaction
- Efficiency
- Financial Stability
According to Thomson Reuters Healthcare:
- Silver Cross is the only hospital in Illinois to win the award every year for the last 6 years.
- Only 5 hospitals in the nation have been recognized as a "100 Top Hospitals" winner for the last 6 consecutive years.
- 55 of the nation's 5,000 hospitals have received the award 6 or more times.
A Significant 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 Length of Stay
- Expenses
- Profitability
- Patient Satisfaction
- Adherence to Clinical Standards of Care.
- Post-discharge mortality
- Re-admission rates for acute myocardinal infarction, heart failure and pneumonia.
The winners don't apply for or pay for the award.
If all Medicare patients received the same level of care as patients treated at 100 Top Hospital winners:
- 98,000 additional patients would survive each year
- About 197,000 patient complications would be avoided
- Expenses would decline by $5.5 billion a year
- The average patient stay would decrease by nearly half a day.
What does this award mean for Silver Cross patients and the community?
- Higher survival rates
- Fewer complications
- A safer environment
- Higher patient satisfaction.
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