The Thomson 100 Top Hospitals® is a list of the top 100 out of over 3,000 hospitals nationwide identifying the hospitals where patients are measurably less likely to have a complication, an adverse patient safety event, or die unnecessarily. These are hospitals where patients are also more likely to receive care efficiently at a reasonable comparative cost. And, the community can rely on the identified Top 100 hospitals as well-managed major employers that will continue to invest in newer technology and services needed by the community.
The 100 Top Hospitals® have higher survival rates, keep more patients complication-free, and attract more patients-all while maintaining financial stability.
If all Medicare inpatients received the same level of care as those in the 100 Top Hospitals winners:
More than 120,000 additional patients would survive each year More than 138,000 patient complications would be avoided annually Expenses would decline by an aggregate $6.2 billion a year The average patient stay decreases by more than half a day
The 100 Top Hospital award winners also:
Reward their employees with better pay Have better patient safety, saving lives and dollars
For the past decade, Thomson Healthcare has consistently identified benchmark practices by using solely objective
statistical analyses of public data sources, and by constantly improving and refining the study performance measures,
thresholds for inclusion, and methodologies. The study focuses on short-term, acute care, non-federal U.S. hospitals
that treat a broad spectrum of patients. The data come from public sources including the Medicare Provider Analysis
and Review (MedPAR) data set, and the Medicare Cost Report.
Hospitals are scored on a set of weighted performance measures centered on clinical excellence, operating efficiency, financial health, and responsiveness to the community. Those measures include:
Risk-adjusted mortality index Risk-adjusted complications index Risk-adjusted patient safety index Core Measures Score Severity-adjusted average length of stay Expense per adjusted discharge, case mix- and wage-adjusted Profitability (operating profit margin) Cash to total debt ratio
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