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Thomson Healthcare and the 100 Top Hospitals program announced the winners of the 15th annual 100 Top Hospitals®: National Benchmarks for Success study on March 17, 2008.

The National study identifies the nation's top performing hospitals using the two most recent years of data.

View the list of winning hospitals
Read the article in Modern Healthcare
Read the press release
Learn more about the study

How do the 100 Top Hospitals Stay on Top?

Over six years, the 100 Top Hospitals National winners consistently stayed ahead of the competition on seven out of eight of the AHRQ patient safety measures included in the study. If peer hospitals had performed as well as the 100 Top Hospitals on these eight patient safety measures alone:

54,700 adverse patient safety events could be avoided
173,000 patient hospital days could have been avoided
$581 million dollars could have been saved
40,000 more patients could have survived

The results could be even better if improvements were made in all safety measures. 100 Top Hospitals showed the greatest improvement on one of the highest impact patient safety measures – failure to rescue.

Read the research findings.

	100 Top Hospitals® Program Overview (1:28)
	National Winners (2:42)
	Cardiovascular Winners (1:07)
	PIL Winners (0:52)
	Watch the entire video (5:34)

Press Release: Patient Safety in Hospitals Shows Five Consecutive Years of Improvement, According to Thomson Healthcare Study »

Recorded Session: Announcing the Thomson 100 Top Hospitals National Benchmarks Results »

Research: Trends in Patient Safety Adverse Outcomes and 100 Top Hospitals Performance, 2000–2005 »

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