Lakeview Named a Top 100 Hospital in the U.S. for the Fifth Time

has been named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals by Thomson Reuters. This is the fifth time Lakeview Hospital has been named to the list.

Lakeview, a member of Lakeview Health and the HealthPartners family of care, earned the honor by achieving “excellence in clinical outcomes, patient safety, patient satisfaction, financial performance and operational efficiency.”

The 2012 honor makes Lakeview Hospital one of only 110 hospitals in the U.S. to ever win a 100 Top Hospital award five times or more. In Minnesota, Lakeview is the only community hospital in the 100-bed category to win this award five times or more.

“We are extremely honored to once again be ranked among the best hospitals in the nation and to be one of only two hospitals in Minnesota to be named a 100 Top Hospital for 2012,” Lakeview Hospital President Curt Geissler said. “The compassion and commitment of our physicians and staff directly resulted in this honor.”

Geissler said it is gratifying to have the efforts of the hospital board, management and staff members objectively acknowledged within the healthcare industry.

“We are extremely proud of Lakeview Hospital and its entire staff, Lakeview Health System Board Chair Tracey Galowitz said. “We are so fortunate to have the people at Lakeview who provide some of the highest quality of care in the country, right here in the St. Croix Valley.”

According to a news release:

To conduct the 100 Top Hospitals study, Thomson Reuters researchers evaluated 2,886 short-term, acute care, non-federal hospitals.

They used public information – Medicare cost reports, Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR) data, and core measures and patient satisfaction data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare website.

The study evaluated performance in 10 areas: mortality; medical complications; patient safety; average patient stay; expenses; profitability; patient satisfaction; adherence to clinical standards of care; post-discharge mortality; and readmission rates for acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), heart failure, and pneumonia.

Hospitals do not apply, and winners do not pay to market this honor.

To read more about this award visit, www.100tophospitals.com and www.modernhealthcare.com.