Oak Lawn, Ill. – For the fourth year in a row and the seventh time overall, Advocate Christ Medical Center has been named to the Truven Health Analytics’ list of 100 Top Hospitals®. The Michigan-based organization announced the rankings today.
The medical center is one of only 10 hospitals in Illinois – and one of just four major teaching hospitals in the state and 15 nationally -- to make the list. Four other Illinois hospitals on the list also are in the Advocate Health Care system.
The Truven Health 100 Top Hospitals® award recognizes hospitals for overall organizational performance across 11 key analytic measures including patient care, operational efficiency and financial stability.
“We have more than 1,200 physicians and 6,000 associates working together every day to ensure our patients receive the very best in safe, quality and compassionate care. Their amazing passion for excellence, their commitment to our ministry of healing are why our medical center is listed among the nation’s elite hospitals in terms of health outcomes, patient satisfaction and overall quality and safety,” said Ken Lukhard, president of Christ Medical Center.
Truven Health is a leading source of information, analytic tools, benchmarks and services for the health care industry and professionals. To conduct the 100 Top Hospitals study, Truven Health researchers evaluated approximately 3,000 short-term and acute-care, non-federal hospitals. They used public information available in Medicare cost reports, Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR) data, core measures and data posted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on its Hospital Compare web site.
In comparison with their peer institutions, hospitals on the 100 Top list have a lower mortality index (considering patient severity) and fewer patient complications, avoid adverse patient safety events, follow accepted care protocols, have lower rates of mortality and 30-day hospital readmissions, keep expenses down, send patients home sooner and score better on patient satisfaction surveys, Truven analysts said.
Truven researchers say that if all hospitals in the U.S. performed at the level of this year's winners:
- 126,471 additional lives could be saved
- 108,926 additional patients could be complication-free
- $1.8 billion in inpatient costs could be saved
- The average patient stay would decrease by half a day
- Episode-of-illness expense would be 2 percent lower than the peer average
“The 2015 100 Top study results have identified 100 hospitals that have been objectively proven to provide high value to their communities. Employers and payers are increasingly seeking network hospitals that consistently provide high value – hospitals that deliver higher quality, higher patient satisfaction and lower cost,” said Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president, 100 Top Hospitals Program at Truven Health Analytics.
Inclusion on the Truven Health list of 100 Top Hospitals® is the latest recognition in a series of regional and national honors that have underscored the commitment and achievements of Advocate Christ Medical Center’s team of physicians and associates. Within the past year, the medical center has been ranked by U.S. News & World Report as a top-50 hospital for cardiology/heart surgery, gynecology, geriatric medicine and neurology/neurosurgery; been redesignated a Magnet institution for the third consecutive time by the American Nurses Credentialing Center; and earned an “A” rating in the national 2014 Hospital Safety ScoreSM , administered by The Leapfrog Group.
“Our success is due to our desire to constantly enhance the care and expand the services we provide to our patients. We look at each of our awards as motivation to keep growing, to keep improving and to keep innovating,” said Richard Scott, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Christ Medical Center.
“There has there been a consistent and constant urgency to improve in everything that we do for the sake and safety of our patients,” said William Adair, MD, vice president for clinical transformation at Christ Medical Center. “We are never satisfied with the status quo.”
About Advocate Christ Medical Center
Advocate Christ Medical Center is part of Advocate Health Care, which is one of the nation’s leading health care networks. A not-for-profit, 694-bed, premier teaching institution with more than 1,200 affiliated physicians, Christ Medical Center is a leader in health care and one of the major referral hospitals in the Midwest in a number of specialties, including cardiovascular services, heart, kidney and lung transplantation, neurosciences, oncology, orthopedics and women’s health. The hospital also has one of the busiest Level I trauma centers in Illinois providing emergency care for more than 100,000 patient visits annually and is a leader in breakthrough technologies, including eICU® (electronic intensive care unit) monitoring, robotic da Vinci Surgery System® and CyberKnife® Radiosurgery. For the last four years (2012-2015), the medical center has been named to the Truven Health 100 Top Hospitals® list. U.S. News & World Report has ranked the medical center among the nation’s leading providers for cardiology and heart surgery, geriatric medicine, gynecology and neurology/neurosurgery and rated it overall as being among the top three hospitals in Illinois. The hospital is also recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) as a Magnet Center. Magnet status represents the highest honor in the nursing profession. To obtain more information or to visit our newsroom, log on to: www.advocatehealth.com/christ.