Advocate Lutheran General recognized as Truven 100 Top Hospital for 17th time
It is a milestone that only two hospitals in the country have reached. For the 17th time, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital has been recognized as a 100 Top Hospital by Truven Health Analytics. The fact that Advocate Lutheran has appeared on this prestigious list of high performing hospitals in the nation for nearly two decades reflects a commitment to consistently provide exceptional patient care.
"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 U.S. 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 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 balanced scorecard measuring overall organizational performance across 11 key analytic measures including patient care, operational efficiency, and financial stability. The study has been conducted annually since 1993.
"It is a tremendous honor to be recognized for the 17th time as a 100 Top Hospital, "says Rick Floyd, president of Advocate Lutheran General Hospital. "We take great pride in knowing that our patient outcomes have consistently been among the very best in the nation for nearly two decades. This demonstration of enduring excellence reflects the outstanding commitment of Lutheran General Hospital physicians, associates and volunteers to being the best in the nation, every day."
To conduct the 100 Top Hospitals study, Truven Health researchers evaluated close to 3,000 short-term, acute-care, nonfederal hospitals. 100 Top Hospitals researchers use risk-adjusted methodologies to analyze public information - Medicare cost reports, Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MEDPAR) data, and core measures and patient satisfaction data from the CMS Hospital Compare reports. Hospitals do not apply, and winners do not pay to market this honor.
The winning hospitals were announced in the Feb. 28, 2016, edition of Modern Healthcare magazine.