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100 Top Hospitals®:
Benchmarks for Success — 2002
Findings
For
10 years, the 100 Top Hospitals have been setting standards for quality
hospital care and financial performance in the United States.
The 100
Top Hospitals:
- Have higher survival rates. We estimate that if all Medicare inpatients received the same level of care as those in the 100 Top Hospitals, an additional 84,374 patients could survive each year.
- Spend
less money, release patients from the hospital faster, and have
fewer employees.
- Treat
more of the sickest patients
- Keeping
profits higher in a difficult marketplace
The Best
of the Benchmarks--hospitals that have set national benchmarks
for overall performance in their respective hospital categories four
or more times—display an even higher level of management excellence:
- They
are leaders in new technologies—far more likely than their peers
to be early adopters of selected new diagnostic and therapeutic
technologies.
- They
serve a higher percentage of their communities by winning more business—40
to 60 percent more, on average--than their peers
The 10th
anniversary Findings section reflects our continuing commitment to
improve the 100 Top Hospitals program:
- We
are expanding our data presentation methods to provide more complete
reporting of the impact and value the 100 Top hospitals bring their
communities.
- For
the first time, we are sharing early evaluation of new measures
we are considering for future 100 Top studies.
- We
take a preliminary look at the differences in discharge standards
between the best performing hospitals and their peers.
For
full details, the 2002 100 Top Hospitals study abstract is now available!
Click here for more information or to order.
Make
the 100 Top Hospitals study work for you:
Want
to see how your hospital scored on the 100 Top Hospitals measures?
Order a Results Report
to see how you compare.
To see
how your hospital’s 5-year progress compares, order a Trend
Report.
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