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Thomson Reuters Names Top 100 Hospitals for 2012

 |  By cclark@healthleadersmedia.com  
   April 17, 2012

If all Medicare patients received care equal to that provided by hospitals that made Thomson Reuters' new top 100 list for 2012, 186,000 people who died would be alive, more than $4.3 billion would be saved, and about 56,000 patients would have avoided complications from hospital procedures they otherwise endured.

Thomson Reuters made that assessment after evaluating 2,886 short-term acute-care, non federal hospitals for quality characteristics that included Medicare cost reports, Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR) data, as well as core measures and patient experience scores tallied by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to come up with this year's list.

"Hospitals do not apply, and winners do not pay to market this honor," the company said in a news release.


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"This year, the concentration of 100 Top Hospitals award winners has shifted significantly, with Texas, Florida, and California housing the most winners," Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president at Thomson Reuters, said in a media statement.  "A major change in performance geographically is an encouraging indication that the bar for quality care has been raised once again."

The organization compares performance in 10 areas, including mortality, medical complications, patient safety, average patient stay, expenses, profitability, patient satisfaction, adherence to clinical standards of care, post-discharge mortality and readmission rates for three conditions—heart attack, pneumonia and congestive heart failure.

Included in the list for the fourth year is a subset of "Everest Award" winners, those hospitals that improved the most over five years.  This year, there are 12 in this category. Those receiving the Everest are indicated below with an asterisk.

The company has produced this top hospitals list since 1993. This year, the hospitals are grouped into five categories: 

Major Teaching Hospitals

  • UC San Diego Medical Center – Hillcrest – San Diego, CA*
  • Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center – Chicago, IL
  • Advocate Christ Medical Center – Oak Lawn, IL
  • Ochsner Medical Center – New Orleans, LA*
  • Baystate Medical Center – Springfield, MA
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center – Boston, MA
  • St. Joseph Mercy Hospital – Ann Arbor, MI
  • Doctors Hospital – Columbus, OH
  • Geisinger Medical Center – Danville, PA
  • Allegheny General Hospital – Pittsburgh, PA
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center – Philadelphia, PA
  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center – Nashville, TN
  • Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas – Dallas, TX
  • Scott & White Hospital – Temple, TX
  • The Methodist Hospital – Houston, TX

Teaching Hospitals

  • Scripps Green Hospital – La Jolla, CA
  • Poudre Valley Hospital – Fort Collins, CO
  • Morton Plant Hospital – Clearwater, FL*
  • Carle Foundation Hospital – Urbana, IL
  • St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital – Indianapolis, IN
  • St. Luke's Hospital – Cedar Rapids, IA
  • Mercy Medical Center North Iowa – Mason City, IA
  • Mercy Medical Center – Baltimore, MD
  • Saint Vincent Hospital – Worcester, MA
  • Munson Medical Center – Traverse City, MI
  • Beaumont Hospital, Troy – Troy, MI
  • Hackensack University Medical Center – Hackensack, NJ
  • Mission Hospital – Asheville, NC
  • Kettering Medical Center – Kettering, OH
  • UPMC Hamot – Erie, PA
  • Robert Packer Hospital – Sayre, PA
  • Bryn Mawr Hospital – Bryn Mawr, PA
  • Lankenau Medical Center – Wynnewood, PA
  • AnMed Health Medical Center – Anderson, SC
  • Saint Thomas Hospital – Nashville, TN
  • Memorial Health Care System – Chattanooga, TN
  • Memorial Hermann Hospital System – Houston, TX
  • Baptist St. Anthony's Health System – Amarillo, TX
  • McKay-Dee Hospital Center – Ogden, UT
  • Bon Secours St. Mary's Hospital – Richmond, VA*

Large Community Hospitals

  • Banner Boswell Medical Center – Sun City, AZ*
  • Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center -Torrance, CA
  • Centinela Hospital Medical Center – Inglewood, CA
  • Martin Health System – Stuart, FL
  • Sarasota Memorial Hospital – Sarasota, FL*
  • Kendall Regional Medical Center – Miami, FL
  • Ocala Regional Medical Center – Ocala, FL
  • Delray Medical Center – Delray Beach, FL*
  • Mease Countryside Hospital – Safety Harbor, FL
  • Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital – Downers Grove, IL
  • Owensboro Medical Health System – Owensboro, KY
  • Clara Maass Medical Center – Belleville, NJ*
  • Community Medical Center – Toms River, NJ
  • Gaston Memorial Hospital – Gastonia, NC
  • St. Clair Hospital – Pittsburgh, PA
  • Trinity Mother Frances Hospital – Tyler, TX
  • St. David's Medical Center – Austin, TX
  • Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center – Houston, TX
  • CHRISTUS St. Michael Health System – Texarkana, TX
  • St. David's North Austin Medical Center – Austin, TX

Medium Community Hospitals

  • Baptist Medical Center East – Montgomery, AL
  • Garden Grove Hospital Medical Center – Garden Grove, CA
  • French Hospital Medical Center – San Luis Obispo, CA*
  • West Anaheim Medical Center – Anaheim, CA
  • Chino Valley Medical Center – Chino, CA
  • Doctors Hospital of Sarasota – Sarasota, FL*
  • Northwest Medical Center – Margate, FL
  • Gulf Coast Medical Center – Panama City, FL
  • Cleveland Clinic Florida – Weston, FL
  • Dupont Hospital – Fort Wayne, IN
  • Saint Joseph Hospital – Bangor, ME
  • Holland Hospital – Holland, MI
  • Mercy Hospital Clermont – Batavia, OH
  • Sycamore Medical Center – Miamisburg, OH
  • Paoli Hospital – Paoli, PA
  • Doylestown Hospital – Doylestown, PA
  • Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital – Charleston, SC
  • St. David's Round Rock Medical Center – Round Rock, TX
  • Ogden Regional Medical Center – Ogden, UT
  • Augusta Health – Fishersville, VA*

Small Community Hospitals

  • St. Elizabeth Community Hospital – Red Bluff, CA
  • Sutter Davis Hospital – Davis, CA
  • Desert Valley Hospital – Victorville, CA
  • Gulf Breeze Hospital – Gulf Breeze, FL
  • Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast – Miramar Beach, FL
  • Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center – Plymouth, IN
  • Major Hospital – Shelbyville, IN
  • Harlan ARH Hospital – Harlan, KY
  • Spectrum Health United Memorial – Greenville, MI
  • Mercy Hospital Cadillac – Cadillac, MI
  • St. Joseph Health System – Tawas City, MI*
  • Lakeview Hospital – Stillwater, MN
  • Woodwinds Health Campus – Woodbury, MN
  • The HealthCenter – Kalispell, MT
  • Samaritan Regional Health System – Ashland, OH
  • Dublin Methodist Hospital – Dublin, OH
  • Ponca City Medical Center – Ponca City, OK
  • Baylor Medical Center at Waxahachie – Waxahachie, TX
  • Hill Country Memorial Hospital – Fredericksburg, TX
  • Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital – Sugar Land, TX

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