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Bethesda North and Good Samaritan Among Top 100 Hospitals in the Nation
May 27, 2008
Bethesda North Hospital and Good Samaritan Hospital have both been named among the nation's 100 Top Hospitals by Thomson Healthcare. The 2007 Thomson 100 Top Hospitals: National Benchmarks for Success award (formerly known as Solucient 100 Top Hospitals) recognizes hospitals that have achieved excellence in clinical outcomes, patient safety, financial performance, and efficiency.
The 2007 award is the fourth consecutive year that Bethesda North has been recognized, and the first time for Good Samaritan. The 100 Top Hospitals were chosen from more than 3,000 hospitals in the U.S. with at least 25 beds.
Statistical information collected in 2005 and 2006 from Medicare data and cost reports was used to select the top hospitals. Eight information categories were analyzed: risk-adjusted mortality index, patient safety index, risk-adjusted complications index, core measures score, average length of stay, expense per adjusted discharge, operating profit margin and cash-to-total-debt ratio.
The Top 100 Hospitals deliver the highest balanced performance across quality, efficiency, and financial stability. If all hospitals had performed at the level of these leading hospitals on the eight patient safety measures studied, they would have saved $253 million and 7,914 lives during the time period the study examined, according to Thomson analysts.
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