�For the second straight year, Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center and its senior management team have got been named one of the one C Top Hospitals� Performance Improvement Leader by Thomson Healthcare in the annual Thomson Performance Improvement Leaders study. The study examines the performance of more than 2,800 U.S. hospitals in a variety of clinical, fiscal and operational areas.
Caritas St. Elizabeth's was rated on vIII factors that reflect clinical outcomes and efficiency, such as patient mortality, medical complications, patient safety, length of last out, expenses, profitableness, cash-to-debt ratio and employment of evidence-based medicine. Caritas St. Elizabeth's is one of 100 hospitals that improved the most from 2002 to 2006.
"Being named to this prestigious list deuce years in a row underscores the vast efforts on behalf of our medical staff to provide exceptional tutelage to our patients," aforementioned Chris O'Connor, president of Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center. "We are fully devoted to our commission of providing world-class maintenance to our patients in the communities where they live, and being recognised as a 100 Top Performance Leader is a great honour."
The Thomson 100 Top Performance Leaders study analyzed publicly available Medicare cost reports, Medicare Provider Analysis and Review data and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) outpatient data.
"This study identifies superior leadership, based on the success of hospital executive teams' long-term strategies for strengthening performance," said Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president for performance improvement and century Top Hospitals programs at Thomson Reuters. "These ar true 'Good to Great' leadership teams that have focused on better serving their patients and communities."
About the Thomson C Top Hospitals ProgramThe C Top Hospitals: Performance Improvement Leaders studies and awards recognize infirmary CEOs and senior management teams that have lED their organizations to reach the fastest rate of consistent yearly organizational advance. By trending the current "100 Top" criteria across the most recent quintet years of public information, this custom study allows healthcare organizations to celebrate and compare the consistency and rate of performance improvement of a hospital as a whole and by item-by-item criteria.
The 100 Performance Leaders list is uncommitted here.
About Thomson Healthcare Thomson Healthcare is the leading provider of decision support solutions that help organizations across the health care industry ameliorate clinical and business performance. Thomson Healthcare products and services help clinicians, hospitals, employers, wellness plans, politics agencies, and pharmaceutical companies manage the cost and improve the quality of healthcare.
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About Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical CenterCaritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center is a major academic medical centre of attention affiliated with Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. Areas of medical excellence include cardiology and cardiovascular research, neurosciences, women's health, risky obstetrics, bone and marijuana cigarette health, hematology/oncology, pulmonary medicinal drug and gastroenterology. Caritas St. Elizabeth's is a member of Caritas Christi Health Care, the second largest healthcare system in New England.
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