Advocate Christ Named to 100 Top Hospitals List for 2015

Source: Advocate Christ Medical Center.

For the fourth year in a row and the seventh time overall, Advocate Christ Medical Center has been named to the Truven Health Analytics’ list of 100 Top Hospitals, in the major teaching hospitals group.

The medical center is one of only 10 hospitals in Illinois —and one of just four major teaching hospitals in the state and 15 nationally — to make the list.

Four other Illinois hospitals on the list also are in the Advocate Health Care system.

The Truven Health 100 Top Hospitals® award recognizes hospitals for overall organizational performance across 11 key analytic measures, including patient care, operational efficiency and financial stability.

“We have more than 1,200 physicians and 6,000 associates working together every day to ensure our patients receive the very best in safe, quality and compassionate care. Their amazing passion for excellence, their commitment to our ministry of healing are why our medical center is listed among the nation’s elite hospitals in terms of health outcomes, patient satisfaction and overall quality and safety,” said Ken Lukhard, president of Christ Medical Center, in a news release.

Methodology:

To conduct the 100 Top Hospitals study, Truven Health researchers evaluated approximately 3,000 short-term and acute-care, non-federal hospitals. They used public information available in Medicare cost reports, Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR) data, core measures and data posted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on its Hospital Compare web site.

In comparison with their peer institutions, hospitals on the 100 Top list have a lower mortality index (considering patient severity) and fewer patient complications, avoid adverse patient safety events, follow accepted care protocols, have lower rates of mortality and 30-day hospital readmissions, keep expenses down, send patients home sooner and score better on patient satisfaction surveys, Truven analysts said.

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