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Marion General Hospital Named One of Nation’s 100 Top Hospitals
by Thomson Healthcare
March 17, 2008 Contact: Ann Vermilion at 765-662-4849
or Randy Deffenbaugh at 765-662-4014
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| Marion, IN – Today, Marion General Hospital was named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals® by Thomson Healthcare, a leading provider of information and solutions to improve the cost and quality of healthcare.
The award recognizes hospitals which have achieved excellence in clinical outcomes, patient safety, financial performance and efficiency. This is the second time MGH has been recognized with this honor. In 1993, MGH received the award for the first time.
The 2007 Thomson 100 Top Hospitals: National Benchmarks for Success study appears in the March 17 edition of Modern Healthcare magazine.
“We are proud to be a community-based hospital that strives to be nationally recognized for the care we provide. This award reinforces our commitment to provide general acute care at a world-class level of quality,” states David L. Callecod, president and CEO. “It is one more organization which recognizes our priority of becoming the number one healthcare provider in our region.”
According to the study, the highest performance levels in patient safety were achieved by the 100 hospitals in the study that delivered 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.
“Employers, health plans and hospitals need to take note that we have entered a new phase in driving transformation of the healthcare industry,” said Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president in the Center for Healthcare Improvement at Thomson Healthcare. “Hospitals setting new levels of patient safety are those with the highest balanced scores across quality, efficiency and financial performance.”
The 15th edition of the Thomson 100 Top Hospitals: National Benchmarks for Success study uses a balanced scorecard approach and scores hospitals according to eight key organization-wide measures: risk-adjusted mortality, risk-adjusted complications, patient safety composite, average core measures scores, severity-adjusted average length of stay, expense per adjusted discharge, profit from operations and cash-to-debt ratio.
For more information on this study and other 100 Top Hospitals, research is available at www.100tophospitals.com. Additional information can be found at www.mgh.net or at http://www.100tophospitals.com under "News/Press Room."
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