Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital was named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals by Truven Health Analytics TM, a leading provider of data-driven analytics and solutions to improve the quality of health care.
The Truven Health 100 Top Hospitals study identifies hospitals and leadership teams that provide the highest level of value to their communities, based on a national scorecard. The scorecard measures overall organizational performance across 11 key analytic measures including patient care, operational efficiency and financial stability.
“Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital is committed to serving our community by providing exemplary, compassionate care.” says Chris Siebenaler, CEO of Houston Methodist Sugar Land, “We are honored to be recognized as one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals.”
To conduct the 100 Top Hospitals study, Truven Health researchers evaluated close to 3,000 short-term, acute care, nonfederal hospitals. Risk-adjusted methodologies were used to analyze public information — Medicare cost reports, Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MEDPAR) data, and core measures and patient satisfaction data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare reports.
“The 2016 100 Top Hospitals award winners represent the highest national standards in hospital care and management. They set the benchmarks for peers around the country to follow,” said Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president at Truven Health Analytics. “Hospitals in three out of the five report groups actually reduced overall expense year over year, while improving patient outcomes – exactly the results that the entire industry hopes to attain.”
The study shows that if all hospitals in the United States performed at the level of this year’s winners:
- More than 104,000 additional lives could be saved
- Nearly 48,400 additional patients could be complication-free
- $2 billion in inpatient costs could be saved
- The average patient stay would decrease by half a day
The winning hospitals were announced in the February 28 edition of Modern Healthcare magazine. More information on this study and other 100 Top Hospitals research is available at 100tophospitals.com.