University Hospitals Case Medical Center
University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Hillcrest Hospital, and Southwest General Health Center were among the Cleveland-area hospitals named in the Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals study.
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The honors, announced on Monday, are based on nine areas: mortality, medical complications, patient safety, average length of stay, expenses, profitability, cash-to-debt ratio, patient satisfaction, and adherence to clinical standards of care.
University Hospitals was honored in the Major Teaching Hospitals category; Hillcrest was in the Teaching Hospital category; and Southwest General was in the Large Community Hospitals category.
Hillcrest is a Cleveland Clinic hospital and Southwest General partners with University Hospitals.
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The Thomson Reuters study noted that if all Medicare inpatients received the same level of care as patients treated in the winning hospitals that more than 107,000 additional patients would survive each year; nearly 132,000 patient complications would be avoided annually; expenses would decline by $5.9 billion a year; and the average patient stay would decrease by nearly half a day.
Other Ohio hospitals listed among the best include: Good Samaritan Hospital of Cincinnati; Riverside Methodist Hospital of Columbus; Mercy Hospital Clermont of Bativia; Union Hospital of Dover; Sycamore Medical Center of Miamisburg; Licking Memorial Hospital of Newark; and Wooster Community Hospital of Wooster.
Thomson Reuters researchers evaluated 3,000 short-term, acute care and non-federal hospitals using public information that included Medicare cost reports and patient satisfaction data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare data set.
Complete rankings are available at the Top 100 Hospitals Web site.
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