Congratulations to the new 15 Top Health Systems award winners. These elite organizations demonstrate high quality outcomes on key measures of clinical quality, efficiency, and patient satisfaction. Health systems do not apply, and winners do not pay to market their award. Learn more about the 2012 winners.

The 15 Top Health Systems study provides leaders of health systems with performance research and benchmarks unique to systems. By highlighting the performance of the very best health systems, we’re helping all systems set realistic targets for improvements that will increase value to patients and communities. Read more about our 2012 study.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the American College of Health Care Executives have announced that Baldrige hospitals are significantly more likely to win the 100 Top Hospitals® award — as demonstrated by objective measurement of the performance of Baldrige National Quality award winners over five years. The 100 Top Hospitals award identifies hospitals across five categories that set national benchmarks for balanced excellence at the top 3 percent in the nation.

Read the Baldrige program press release. 
Read the Baldrige program blog post.
Read the research brief.

The Health System Benchmarks Report is designed to help health system leaders easily compare performance across a system. This report aggregates individual member hospital results into system-level data so that health system leaders can find out how they’re performing on measures of quality, efficiency, and patient satisfaction. See a sample report or contact us today to order your system’s results.