DOWNERS GROVE – Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital was named today as one of the 100 Top Hospitals in the nation for the seventh time.
Good Samaritan Hospital is one of eight Illinois hospitals named to the list, published by Truven Health Analytics, formerly the healthcare business of Thomson Reuters.
“Our 100 Top Hospitals recognition is another external validation of the great quality, safety and service outcomes being provided to patients by the physicians, associates and volunteers of Good Samaritan Hospital,” said Dave Fox, president of Good Samaritan Hospital. “Congratulations to the community of caregivers at Good Samaritan for your commitment to patient-centered care.”
The annual 100 Top Hospitals study, which has been conducted since 1993, evaluates hospitals on overall organization performance, including patient care, operational efficiency and financial stability. It compares hospitals against similar facilities in terms of size and teaching status. Good Samaritan Hospital was among nearly 3,000 short-term, acute care, non-federal hospitals evaluated by Truven Health.
“Delivering high-quality, safe clinical care day in and day out remains our top priority,” said Dr. Charles Derus, Vice President of Medical Management at Good Samaritan Hospital.
“The 2016 100 Top Hospitals award winners represent the highest national standards in hospital care and management. They set the benchmarks for peers around the country to follow,” said Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president at Truven Health Analytics. “Hospitals in three out of the five report groups actually reduced overall expense year over year, while improving patient outcomes – exactly the results that the entire industry hopes to attain.”
The study shows that if all hospitals in the U.S. performed at the level of this year's winners:
• More than 104,000 additional lives could be saved.
• Nearly 48,400 additional patients could be complication free.
• $2 billion in inpatient costs could be saved.
• The average patient stay would decrease by half a day.
For more information, visit www.100tophospitals.com.