Named One of Thomson's Top 100 Hospitals
Tucson Heart Hospital has been named one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals® for cardiovascular care by Thomson Healthcare (formerly Solucient).
The annual Thomson Healthcare award is based on hospitals' performance treating congestive heart failure and heart attacks. The 2007 winners were announced November 19 in Modern Healthcare magazine.
Thomson Healthcare rated facilities in eight key performance areas: risk-adjusted medical mortality, risk-adjusted surgical mortality, risk-adjusted complications, core measures score, percentage of CABG patients with internal mammary artery use, procedure volume, severity-adjusted average length of stay, and wage- and severity-adjusted average cost.
The measures were calculated for three classes of hospitals with the following numbers of winners in each:
- Teaching with cardiovascular residency programs, 30 winners (winners in Arizona were Mayo Clinic Hospital and University Medical Center)
- Teaching without cardiovascular residency programs, 40 winners
- Community, 30 winners (winners in Arizona were Tucson Heart Hospital, Banner Heart Hospital and Arizona Hospital)
Among the key findings from the 2007 Thomson 100 Top Hospitals' Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success study:
- If all cardiovascular hospitals achieved the same results as the 100 Top Hospitals award winners, more than 7,000 lives would be saved and nearly 750 medical complications would be avoided annually.
- The award winners reported hospital stays that were 12 percent shorter, on average, than peer hospitals (5.14 days, compared with 5.85 days).
- The 100 Top Hospitals reported costs that averaged 13 percent – or about $2,000 – less per case than peer hospitals.
- There was a large difference in the volume of heart procedures performed by the winning hospitals and their peers. The 100 Top Hospitals performed nearly two-thirds more coronary artery bypass grafts and percutaneous coronary interventions, such as angioplasty, than other hospitals.
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