Froedtert & The Medical College named to 100 top hospital list

Feb. 25, 2013 College News - Congratulations to all Froedtert Hospital and Medical College of Wisconsin staff, physicians and providers. Today, Truven Health Analytics, formerly the health care business of Thomson Reuters, is announcing that we are among the top 15 Major Teaching Hospitals in its 2013 analysis of Top Hospitals. The list compares peers in these categories: Major Teaching Hospitals, Teaching Hospitals and Large, Medium and Small Community Hospitals. 

Hospitals do not apply and winners do not pay to market this honor. We were the only hospital in Southeastern Wisconsin to be ranked, and one of four ranked in Wisconsin.

Truven’s methodology is objective and comes from trusted public sources. The primary data sources are Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (Med PAR) dataset and the Medicare Cost Report. They use the most recent five years of Cost Reports and three years of Med PAR data available.

Several other datasets are used including core measures and patient satisfaction survey data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - HCAHPS. Residency program information used in classifying major teaching hospitals is from the American Medical Association Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited programs and the American Osteopathic Association. After excluding hospitals with data that would skew study results (i.e. specialty hospitals), they have a database study group of nearly 3,000 hospitals.

Because bed size and teaching status have a profound effect on the types of patients hospitals treat and scope of services it provides, they assign each hospital in the database to one of five comparison groups, according to size and teaching status.

Truven reports that 100 Top Hospitals outperform their peers by demonstrating excellence – operating effectively across all functional areas. Based on comparisons between the study winners and a peer group of similar high volume hospitals that were not winners, Truven found that if all hospitals performed at the level of this year’s winners:

• More than 164,000 additional lives could be saved
• Nearly 82,000 additional patients could be complication free
• $6 billion could be saved
• The typical patient could be released from the hospital half a day sooner

They based this analysis on the Medicare patients included in this study. If the same standards were applied to all inpatients, the impact would be even greater.

Others receiving the Major Teaching Hospital Award are:

• Advocate Christ Medical Center – Oak Lawn, Ill.
• Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center – Chicago, Ill.
• Advocate Lutheran Hospital – Park Ridge, Ill.
• Baystate Medical Center – Springfield, Mass.
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center – Boston, Mass.
• Christiana Care Health System – Newark, Del.
• NorthShore University HealthSystem – Evanston, Ill.
• Northwestern Memorial Hospital – Chicago, Ill.
• Penn Presbyterian medical Center – Philadelphia, Pa.
• Providence Hospital and Medical Center – Southfield, Mich.
• St. Joseph Mercy Hospital – Ann Arbor, Mich.
• The Methodist Hospital – Houston. Texas
• UC San Diego Medical Center – San Diego, Calif.
• University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers – Ann Arbor, Mich.

The 10 measures used to select the 2013 winners are as follows:

1. Risk adjusted mortality index (in-hospital)
2. Risk adjusted complications index
3. Risk adjusted patient safety index
4. Core measures mean percent
5. 30-day risk adjusted readmissions rate for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart failure and pneumonia
6. 30-day risk adjusted mortality rate for AMI, heart failure and pneumonia
7. Severity adjusted average length of stay
8. Case mix and wage adjusted inpatient expense per discharge
9. Adjusted operating profit margin
10. HCAHPS score (patient rating of overall hospital performance)

In this study, it trended three years rather than five used in previous studies. For full details including calculations and scoring methods, please go to www.100tophospitals.com.

Thank you for making this honor possible. This recognition is a testament to the diligent work of staff and physicians across our organizations who continually strive for excellence in caring for patients. We are very proud of your work.

If you would like more information about the award go to www.100tophospitals.com.