March 31, 2009 by Krystin Jarrell
Filed under Community, Top Story
University Hospitals Case Medical Center
University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Hillcrest Hospital, and Southwest General Health Center were among the Cleveland-area hospitals named in the Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals study.
The honors, announced on Monday, are based on nine areas: mortality, medical complications, patient safety, average length of stay, expenses, profitability, cash-to-debt ratio, patient satisfaction, and adherence to clinical standards of care.
University Hospitals was honored in the Major Teaching Hospitals category; Hillcrest was in the Teaching Hospital category; and Southwest General was in the Large Community Hospitals category.
Hillcrest is a Cleveland Clinic hospital and Southwest General partners with University Hospitals.
The Thomson Reuters study noted that if all Medicare inpatients received the same level of care as patients treated in the winning hospitals that more than 107,000 additional patients would survive each year; nearly 132,000 patient complications would be avoided annually; expenses would decline by $5.9 billion a year; and the average patient stay would decrease by nearly half a day.....
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