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100
Top Hospitals®:
Performance Improvement Leaders—2004
Findings
Our study revealed
that in recent years, the hospital industry's ability to improve performance
over time has been minimal, and the challenge health care executives face
in aligning their organizations for continuous performance improvement
is staggering.
The good
news is that such improvement is possible. Although the vast majority
of hospitals have shown little ability to improve performance, 100 hospitals
from all across the nation—the 2004 Solucient Performance Improvement
Leaders—have shown a clear ability to improve, raising clinical
outcomes and efficiency, and growing financial strength and the percent
of community served.
The winners of the 2004 Performance Improvement Leaders Award made the following
gains between 1999 and 2003:
- Went from
having more patient deaths, complications, and adverse safety events
than expected to having fewer than expected
- Rose from being
unprofitable to a maintaining a healthy positive profit margin (4.53%)
- Discharged patients
three-quarters of a day earlier
- Increased their
expenses by only 7%, while their peers' expenses increased 21%.
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