MOVING TRANSPARENCY TO THE NEXT LEVEL
The new 100 Top Hospitals®: Health System Quality/Efficiency Benchmarks study measures and compares, for the first time, the performance of health systems as single organizations. The study highlights the relative level of care provided, and underscores the potential power of health systems to effect rapid change in quality, as well as the implications conveyed to patients and communities by the health system name.
The top 10 health systems outperformed their peers by a wide margin
The top performing systems are providing better care, following standards of care more closely, saving more lives, having fewer complications, and making fewer patient safety errors.
Systemic performance improvement is a new concept for many health systems, and questions remain around how to make it work, as well as its place in the system’s mission. The findings of this study give health system leaders benchmarks for targeting top performance. By showing what the top performers have achieved, we offer concrete goals for the industry.
What does it take to be one of the top systems?
This quantitative study uses public data sources to objectively identify 10 health systems with the highest level of achievement in performance measures that balance an evaluation of patient outcomes, process of care, and efficiency of care delivery. The measures include:
- Risk-adjusted mortality index
- Risk-adjusted complications index
- Risk-adjusted patient safety index
- Core measures mean percent
- Severity-adjusted average length of stay
By applying the risk- and severity- methodologies of the 100 Top Hospitals® Balanced Scorecard as well as a methodology that accounts for hospital size and teaching status, the study scores systems in a way that facilitates comparisons.
