Three OhioHealth Hospitals Named to “100 Top Hospitals” List

Three OhioHealth Hospitals Named to “100 Top Hospitals” List

Riverside Methodist, Grant and Dublin Methodist Only Hospitals in Central Ohio Recognized in 2013 Rankings 

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Three OhioHealth hospitals - Riverside Methodist, Grant Medical Center and Dublin Methodist—have been named to the 2013 Truven Health 100 Top Hospitals® list, formerly known as Thomson Reuters. The rankings were published today in Modern Healthcare magazine. 

Riverside Methodist and Grant Medical Center, which both ranked in the “Teaching Hospitals” category,  were also named two of just 17 Everest Award Winners for having set national benchmarks for both the fastest long-term (five year) improvement and highest (current) performance on the 100 Top Hospitals’ Balanced Scorecard. Everest Award Winners are selected from among the 100 Top Hospitals award winners. This is the second year in a row that Dublin Methodist has been ranked in the “Small Community Hospital” category. 

OhioHealth hospitals have historically appeared among the ranks of the 100 Top Hospitals. Doctors Hospital was on the Top 100 list in 2010, 2011 and 2012 in the “Major Teaching Hospitals” category.  In total, this is the 10th year that Riverside Methodist has been named to the list. This is the 4th time Grant has been named to the list.

 “We are immensely proud that OhioHealth hospitals are the only ones to rank among the 100 Top Hospitals in the greater Columbus area and have ranked among the nation’s best for so many consecutive years,” said Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, chief medical officer, OhioHealth.

The Truven Health 100 Top Hospitals study evaluates performance in 10 areas: mortality; medical complications; patient safety; average patient stay; expenses; profitability; patient satisfaction; adherence to clinical standards of care; post-discharge mortality; and readmission rates for acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), heart failure, and pneumonia. The study is celebrating its 20th year, and has been conducted annually since 1993.

To conduct the 100 Top Hospitals study, Truven Health researchers evaluated 2,922 short-term, acute care, non-federal hospitals. They used public information — Medicare cost reports, Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR) data, and core measures and patient satisfaction data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare website. Hospitals do not apply, and winners do not pay to market this honor.

 “The winners of the 100 Top Hospitals award have driven the national benchmarks higher every year for 20 years. This year’s winners have brought even higher value to their local communities - better quality, higher efficiency and high patient perceptions of care, while confronting the challenges of massive industry-wide transformation to implement healthcare reform, “said Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president at Truven Health Analytics.  ”The key  to success in a tumultuous environment  is visionary leadership  that develops and maintains a hospital-wide culture of excellence that cuts across everything, from patient care to housekeeping to administration, and the refusal to rest on laurels when it comes to adopting new technologies and techniques.  I congratulate this year’s winners for their persistent drive for excellence.”

If all Medicare inpatients received the same level of care as those treated in the award-winning facilities:

• More than 164,000 additional lives could be saved.
• Approximately 82,000 additional patients could be complication free.
• $6 billion could be saved.
• The average patient stay would decrease by nearly half a day.

If the same standards were applied to all inpatients, the impact would be even greater.

More information on this study and other 100 Top Hospitals research is available at www.100tophospitals.com.