Oak Lawn, Ill. – For the third year in a row, Advocate Christ Medical Center has been named to the Truven Health Analytics’ list of 100 Top Hospitals®, released officially this week (week of March 3). The medical center was one of only nine hospitals in Illinois – and one of just three 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 is based on a set of measures that reflect effective performance across an institution’s entire organization -- medical staff, nursing, and administration/management. The measures include patient outcomes and safety: national treatment standards, also known as “core measures,” patient satisfaction, operational efficiency and financial stability. The hospital study has been conducted annually since 1993.
“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 being 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 nearly 3,000 acute-care, non-federal hospitals. They used public information available in Medicare cost reports, Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR) data, core measures and patient satisfaction data posted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
If all Medicare patients received the same level of care as those treated in the top-performing hospitals, more than 165,000 additional lives could be saved, some 90,000 additional patients could be complication-free, $5.4 billion would be saved; and the average patient stay would decrease by nearly half a day, Truven Health reported.
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 and geriatric medicine, reached the top tier (upper 3 percent) of hospitals in the country for patient safety based on federal composite patient safety measures, and been given an “A” rating in the national 2013 Hospital Safety ScoreSM, administered by The Leapfrog Group.
“Our success is not due to any one or two factors, but to the cultural change that has affected the entire organization,” said William Adair MD, vice president for clinical transformation at Christ Medical Center. “Not only has there been a consistent and constant urgency to improve in everything that we do as physicians and associates for the sake and safety of our patients, but a lack of satisfaction with the status quo. We may have received recognition for what we did yesterday, but we know we can still do better today, and we are always looking for ways to achieve that.”
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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 1,000 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 and kidney 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 90,000 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. In both 2012 and 2013, the medical center was named to the Truven Health 100 Top Hospitals®, while U.S. News & World Report ranked the medical center among the nation’s leading providers for cardiology and heart surgery and for geriatric medicine and ranked it fourth overall among hospitals in the state of 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.