BIDMC Named One of Nation's Top 100 Hospitals
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has earned a 2007 Thomson Top 100 Hospitals National Benchmarks for Success Award. The award is based on a study of public Medicare data of 3,000 hospitals across the country.
Date: 4/11/2008
BIDMC Contact: Jerry Berger
Phone: 617-667-7308
Email: jberger@bidmc.harvard.edu
BOSTON -- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has earned a 2007 Thomson Top 100 Hospitals National Benchmarks for Success Award. The award is based on a study of public Medicare data of 3,000 hospitals across the country.
BIDMC is the only major teaching hospital in New England to receive the honor and is among 15 major teaching hospitals in the country on the Top 100 list. Others winner in the category include University of Michigan Hospital and Health Center in Ann Arbor, MI; University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland; and Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.
The study ranks hospitals based on their performance in eight key clinical and financial areas – 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. 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.
The award is bestowed by Thomson Healthcare, a national healthcare information company.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is a patient care, teaching and research affiliate of Harvard Medical School, and consistently ranks among the top four in National Institutes of Health funding among independent hospitals nationwide. BIDMC is clinically affiliated with the Joslin Diabetes Center and is a research partner of Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. BIDMC is the official hospital of the Boston Red Sox. For more information, visit www.bidmc.harvard.edu.
