By combining publicly available data sets and our empirical, time-tested methodologies, the 100 Top Hospitals® program objectively identifies the highest performers in the nation. By highlighting what these leaders do best, we have raised the bar for hospital performance each year.

• The 100 Top Hospitals: National Benchmarks for Success and 100 Top Hospitals: Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success identify the nation's top providers, using the two most recent years of data. These studies benchmark the industry's management and clinical outcomes to help hospital boards and executives ask the right questions about organizational performance and assess the effectiveness of their own strategies and execution.
  
• The Performance Improvement Leaders study identifies hospital management teams that have led their organizations to achieve the fastest rate of consistent annual organizational improvement over five years. This study allows boards and executives to compare the year-over-year consistency and speed of organization-wide improvement against peers and understand the alignment of their organization's various units and how they contribute to permanent improvement.

Together, the studies provide the industry's first hospital board-level tool set for comparatively assessing organizational performance against the nation's top hospitals and all others.

For more information, email the 100 Top Hospitals Coordinator at th.pubs@thomson.com or call Thomson Healthcare Publications at (800) 568-3282 (option #3).