HealthGrades names America's 50 best hospitals for 2010
HealthGrades has named its “America’s 50 Best Hospitals for 2010."
The Golden, Colo.-based healthcare ratings organization examined objective patient outcomes over three years at all 5,000 of the nation’s non-federal hospitals. According to company officials, those hospitals named in its report had mortality rates that were, on average, 27 percent lower than other hospitals.
Hospitals on the list must have had risk-adjusted mortality and complication rates that were in the top 5 percent in the nation for the most consecutive years, indicating sustained, outstanding patient outcomes.
“These hospitals are setting national benchmarks for excellence in clinical quality, and as we continue to debate healthcare reform they should stand as institutions to be learned from and emulated,” said Rick May, MD, a HealthGrades vice president and author of the report.
The list features hospitals from 17 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.
According to HealthGrades, if all hospitals performed at the level of those chosen for the top-50 list, 164,964 deaths and 18,900 in-hospital complications could have been prevented among the Medicare population over the three years studied.
For some procedures and treatments, the variation was much wider. For treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, the 50 best hospitals had, on average, 44.52 percent lower risk-adjusted mortality, and for treatment of pneumonia they had, on average, 40.25 percent lower risk adjusted mortality.
Full procedure-by-procedure comparisons of the HealthGrades America’s 50 Best Hospitals and all others can be found in the report at http://www.healthgrades.com.
For a list of the 50 Best Hospitals, click to the second page:
HealthGrades’ America's 50 Best Hospitals award recipients:
Arizona
Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center, Sun City West, AZ
Mayo Clinic Hospital, Phoenix, AZ
California
Glendale Memorial Hospital & Health Center, Glendale, CA
Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, CA
Saint Johns Hospital Health Center, Santa Monica, CA
Colorado
Centura Health - Penrose St. Francis Health Services, Colorado Springs, CO
Florida
Bay Medical Center, Panama City, FL
Central Florida Regional Hospital, Sanford, FL
Delray Medical Center, Delray Beach, FL
Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center, Daytona Beach, FL
Lawnwood Regional Medical Center and Heart Institute, Fort Pierce, FL
Munroe Regional Medical Center, Ocala, FL
Ocala Regional Medical Center/West Marion Hospital, Ocala, FL
Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Sarasota, FL
Georgia
Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Illinois
Alexian Brothers Medical Center, Elk Grove Village, IL
Evanston Hospital, Evanston, IL
Skokie Hospital, Skokie, IL
Indiana
The Community Hospital, Munster, IN
Kentucky
Baptist Hospital East Louisville, KY
Saint Elizabeth Medical Center, Edgewood, KY
Maryland
Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
Michigan
Beaumont Hospital - Royal Oak, Royal Oak, MI
Genesys Regional Medical Center, Grand Blanc, MI
Munson Medical Center, Traverse City, MI
Missouri
St. Luke's Hospital, Chesterfield, MO
New Jersey
Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ
Ohio
Akron General Medical Center, Akron, OH
Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, OH
Grandview Medical Center, Dayton, OH
Hillcrest Hospital, Mayfield Heights, OH
Marymount Hospital, Garfield Heights, OH
Parma Community General Hospital, Parma, OH
Saint John West Shore Hospital , Westlake, OH
Southwest General Health Center, Middleburg Heights, OH
Summa Akron City and St. Thomas Hospitals, Akron, OH
Pennsylvania
Easton Hospital, Easton, PA
Hamot Medical Center, Erie, PA
Lancaster General Hospital, Lancaster, PA
Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, PA
Main Line Hospitals – Lankenau, Wynnewood, PA
Mercy Hospital Scranton, Scranton, PA
Saint Luke's Hospital, Bethlehem, PA
Tennessee
Memorial Healthcare System, Chattanooga, TN
Texas
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Healthcare - San Antonio San Antonio, TX
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, - Southwest, Houston, TX
Rio Grande Regional Hospital, Mcallen, TX
Virginia
Henrico Doctors' Hospital – Forest, Richmond, VA
Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, VA
