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News - The King's Daughters' Hospital & Health Services, Madison Indiana USA |
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| The King's Daughters' Hospital & Health Services |
| KDH again named among 100 Top Hospitals |
| Date : - 08/04/2009 |
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The King’s Daughters’ Hospital and Health Services has again been named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals® by Thomson Reuters, a leading provider of information and solutions to improve the cost and quality of healthcare. KDHHS earned its first 100 Top Hospitals® honor last year.
The award recognizes hospitals that have achieved excellence in clinical outcomes, patient safety, patient satisfaction, financial performance, and operational efficiency. The 2008 Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals®: National Benchmarks study appeared in the March 30 edition of Modern Healthcare magazine.
The study evaluated and classified 3,000 short-term, acute care, non-federal hospitals across the country into five comparison groups
* Major Teaching Hospitals
* Teaching Hospitals
* Large Community Hospitals
* Medium Community Hospitals
* Small Community Hospitals
King’s Daughters’ was one of 964 hospitals compared in the Small Community Hospitals category. Of those 964 hospitals, 20 were selected as winners. KDHHS was one of eight hospitals in Indiana (all categories) to receive the award.
“To earn this award two years in a row is both a remarkable achievement and a credit to our outstanding physicians, employees, volunteers, students, and board members. It also reflects a strong commitment to our mission: To improve the health of our patients through care, service, and education,” said Roger Allman, President and CEO of King’s Daughters’ Hospital and Health Services.
Winners were identified through an in-depth analysis in nine areas
* Mortality
* Medical complications
* Patient safety
* Average length of stay
* Expenses
* Profitability
* Cash-to-debt ratio
* Patient satisfaction
* Adherence to clinical standards of care
According to Thomson Reuters, if all Medicare patients received the same level of care as Medicare patients treated in winning hospitals, the following would be expected
* More than 107,500 additional patients would survive
each year
* Nearly 132,000 patient complications would be
avoided annually
* Expenses would decline by $5.9 billion a year.
* The average patient stay would decrease by nearly
half a day
“The 100 Top Hospitals winners raised the bar again this year, delivering a higher level of reliable care and greater value for their communities,” said Jean Chenowith, senior vice president for performance improvement and 100 Top Hospitals programs at Thomson Reuters.
More information about this study and other 100 Top Hospitals research is available at www.100tophospitals.com. This is the 16th edition of the Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals.
The King’s Daughters’ Hospital and Health Services was founded in 1899 and remains a not-for-profit organization owned by the Bethany Circle of King’s Daughters’ and Sons. King’s Daughters’ employs more than 900 people and serves five counties – three in southeast Indiana and two in northern Kentucky.
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| Reference : - www.kingsdaughtershospital.org |
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