HOSPITALS IN THREE STATES SET PACE FOR IMPROVED PERFORMANCE

The Healthcare business of Thomson Reuters released its annual study identifying hospitals that demonstrated the fastest, most consistent improvement in the nation over five consecutive years. Nine of the 100 leading hospitals are in Texas. Florida and New York are each home to eight, and Pennsylvania boasts seven. Kentucky and Tennessee each have six winning hospitals, and California and Michigan have five apiece.

Overall, U.S. hospitals struggled to improve their performance from 2002 to 2006, the period covered by the study, but the winning hospitals illustrate that rapid, across-the-board improvement is attainable.

The study—Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals®: Performance Improvement Leaders, 5th Edition—examined the performance of more than 2,800 U.S. hospitals on a variety of clinical, financial, operational, and patient safety criteria to identify the 100 winners. Winners were announced in the Aug. 11 issue of Modern Healthcare.

See a list of winning hospitals or read more about the study