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| Licking Memorial Hospital |
| LMH Named to 100 Top Hospitals® List for a Tenth Year |
| Date : - 01/04/2009 |
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Licking Memorial Hospital (LMH) has earned the remarkable achievement of being named to the national 100 Top Hospitals® list by Thomson Reuters for the 10th time. The prestigious 100 Top Hospitals Award is based on a set of measures that reflect highly effective performance across the entire organization, including employees, medical staff, management, volunteers and board members. Thomson Reuters is based in New York and uses its own statisticians, physicians and hospital industry experts to determine criteria and select the top-performing hospitals. Winning hospitals are announced in five categories: Major Teaching Hospitals, Teaching Hospitals, Large Community Hospitals, Medium Community Hospitals and Small Community Hospitals.
In central Ohio, LMH is the only hospital to make the list in the Community Hospital category this year. Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus received the award in the Teaching Hospital category.
Statewide, a total of 10 Ohio hospitals earned the 100 Top Hospitals distinction for 2008. LMH is one of five Ohio hospitals winning in the Medium Community Hospital category, which includes a total of 20 awardees nationwide.
Nationally, only six hospitals of any size have won the award more often than LMH, and no other hospital in the Medium Community Hospital category has won the award as many times. Over three thousand hospitals, including 1,103 in the Medium Community Hospitals category, were studied to compile the 100 Top Hospitals list.
The 100 Top Hospitals®: National Benchmarks for Success, 16th Edition recognizes hospitals that have set the national benchmarks for providing the highest quality of care in the most efficient manner, while maintaining top financial stability and eliciting the highest patient perception of care. The study scores hospitals according to nine key organization-wide measures: risk-adjusted mortality, risk-adjusted complications, risk-adjusted patient safety, core measures score, severity-adjusted average length of stay, expense per adjusted discharge, operating profit margin, cash-to-total debt ratio and patient rating of overall hospital performance.
Thomson Reuters estimates that if all Medicare inpatients in the U.S. received the same level of care as that provided by the 100 Top Hospitals winners, the following improvements would happen:
* More than 107,500 additional patients would survive each year.
* Nearly 132,000 patient complications would be avoided annually.
* Expenses would decline by an aggregate $5.9 billion each year.
* The average patient length of stay would decrease by nearly one-half day.
“Earning the 100 Top Hospitals award for the 10th time is an outstanding achievement,” said Licking Memorial Health Systems (LMHS) President & CEO Rob Montagnese. “We are greatly honored to have been named to the list more times than any other medium-sized community hospital in the U.S. It is rewarding to our employees, medical staff, management, volunteers and board members to know we are able to consistently achieve at such a high level.”
LMH Board Chairman Patrick Jeffries said, “People in the community know they receive top-quality health care right here at LMH, but this award from a national peer review organization really drives the point home. The LMHS team does not expect awards for their compassionate and highly-skilled care, but it is gratifying to be recognized in this way. The members of the Board of Directors are very proud of this noteworthy achievement.”
The 10 Ohio hospitals named as national 2008 Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals are listed alphabetically below:
* Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati (Teaching Hospital category)
* Hillcrest Hospital, Mayfield Heights (Teaching Hospital category)
* Licking Memorial Hospital, Newark (Medium Community Hospital category)
* Mercy Hospital Clermont, Batavia (Medium Community Hospital category)
* Riverside Methodist Hospital, (Teaching Hospital Category)
* Southwest General Health Center, Middleburg Heights (Large Community Hospital category)
* Sycamore Medical Center, Miamisburg (Medium Community Hospital category)
* Union Hospital, Dover (Medium Community Hospital category)
* University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland (Major Teaching Hospital category)
* Wooster Community Hospital, Wooster (Medium Community Hospital category)
For more information about Thomson Reuter’s 100 Top Hospitals study, please visit www.100tophospitals.com
Licking Memorial Hospital has served the medical needs of Licking County residents since it was founded in 1898. The 227-bed facility employs more than 1,650 staff members to meet the health care needs of the community. Licking Memorial Hospital is proud to have been named one of the nation’s Top 100 Hospitals for a 10th year. For more information, visit www.LMHealth.org.
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| Reference : - www.lmhealth.org |
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