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100 Top Hospitals®:
National
Benchmarks for Success — 2004
Findings
For 12 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, keep more patients complication-free, and hold down expenses—all while maintaining higher profits.
We estimate that if all Medicare inpatients received the same level of care as those in the 100 Top Hospitals:
- An additional 66,342 patients would survive each year.
- More than 66,506 patient complications would be avoided annually.
- Expenses would decline by an aggregate $6.2+ billion a year.
- The average patient stay would decrease by nearly half a day.
If the same standards were applied to all inpatients, the impact would be even greater.
In this year's study abstract we also:
- Show some
exciting ways that hospital can report their successes to their communities—by
using "positive reporting."
- Highlight state and regional differences in hospital performance overall and in terms of patient safety.
- Highlight long-term performance trends for both the 100 Top benchmark hospitals and their peers.
- Detail
how the 100 Top Hospitals performed nationally, regionally, within their
comparison groups, and compared with their peers.
For
full details, the 2004 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 understand
how your hospital’s 5-year performance improvement compares with
your peers, order a Performance
Improvement Leaders Report.
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