St. John's Named Top 100 Cardiovascular Hospital
St. John's Regional Medical Center is pleased to announce it’s been named one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals® for cardiovascular care by Thomson (formerly Solucient. The annual Thomson award for cardiovascular services objectively measures performance on key criteria at the nation's top performing acute-care hospitals. This is the second time St. John’s has been recognized with this honor. The 2006 Thomson 100 Top Hospitals: Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success study appears in the Nov. 6 edition of Modern Healthcare magazine. Thomson scored facilities in eight key performance areas: risk-adjusted medical mortality, risk-adjusted surgical mortality, risk-adjusted complications, core measures score, percentage of CABG patients with internal mammary artery use, procedure volume, severity-adjusted average length of stay, and wage- and severity-adjusted average cost.
Among the key findings:
- If peer hospitals (non-winners) provided the same quality of cardiovascular care as the 100 Top Hospitals facilities, survival rates could increase by more than 8,000 patients each year.
- The average 100 Top Hospitals Cardiovascular winner meets the recommended core measures standards for 95 percent of its heart attack (acute myocardial infarction or AMI) patients.
- Both medical and surgical cardiovascular patients experience markedly higher survival rates at winning hospitals. For example, winning hospitals had 21 percent fewer deaths than expected for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) patients while peer hospitals had only 1 percent fewer deaths than expected.
- Winning hospitals performed up to 80 percent more percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) than their peers, and about 50 percent more CABGs.
- The average 100 Top Hospitals Cardiovascular winner discharges patients half a day earlier and at an average cost that is about 13 percent less than its peers.
More information on this study and other 100 Top Hospitals research is available at www.100tophospitals.com.