– Kane Community
Hospital is proud to announce that UPMC Hamot has been named a 100 Top Hospital
by Thomson Reuters for the sixth time. Thomson Reuters recently released a
study identifying the 100 top U.S. hospitals based on their overall
organizational performance. UPMC Hamot is the only hospital in the region to
earn this prestigious designation.
The Thomson Reuters
100 Top Hospitals® study evaluates performance in 10 areas: mortality; medical
complications; patient safety; average patient stay; expenses; profitability;
patient satisfaction; adherence to clinical standards of care; post-discharge
mortality; and readmission rates for acute myocardial infarction (heart
attack), heart failure, and pneumonia. The study has been conducted annually
since 1993.
To conduct the 100
Top Hospitals study, Thomson Reuters researchers evaluated 2,886 short-term,
acute-care, non-federal hospitals. They used public information - Medicare cost
reports, Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR) data, and core measures
and patient satisfaction data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services (CMS) Hospital Compare website. Hospitals do not apply, and winners do
not pay to market this honor.
If all Medicare
inpatients received the same level of care as those treated at UPMC Hamot and
at other 100 Top facilities:
- More
than 186,000 additional lives could be saved.
- Approximately
56,000 additional patients could be complication free.
- More
than $4.3 billion could be saved.
- The
average patient stay would decrease by nearly half a day.
- If
the same standards were applied to all inpatients, the impact would be
even greater.
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