Abbott Northwestern and Mercy Hospitals named among Nation's Top 100 Heart Hospitals
MINNEAPOLIS and COON RAPIDS, Minn. 10/31/2003--Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis and Mercy Hospital in
Coon Rapids have been named among the nation's top 100 heart
hospitals, according to a report released this week by Evanston,
IL-based Solucient®. The annual Solucient award measures performance on key criteria at
the nation's top performing heart hospitals. The 2003 Solucient 100
Top Hospitals®: Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success study
appears in the Oct. 27 edition of Modern Healthcare magazine.
Among the key findings of the report:
- Winning or "benchmark" heart hospitals named to the 100 Top
Hospitals list provided coronary artery bypass graft patients with
IMA grafts at a rate - nearly four percentage points higher than peer
or "non-winning" hospitals (87.4 percent versus 83.6 percent).
- The mortality rate for congestive heart failure at benchmark
hospitals is nearly 17 percent lower than at non-winning hospitals,
while the mortality rate for acute myocardial infarction, or heart
attack, at benchmark hospitals is nearly nine percent lower than at
peer hospitals.
- Top hospitals have almost 19 percent lower mortality rates for
CABG or coronary balloon angioplasty surgery than peer hospitals.
- Winning hospitals are approximately 20 percent less likely than
non-winners to have complications related to post-operative
infections and hemorrhage for heart patients
- Cardiovascular patients at winning hospitals return to everyday
life faster than those at non-winning hospitals. Patients at the top
heart hospitals were released a half-day earlier than patients at
peer hospitals
- Average cardiovascular-related costs for benchmark hospitals
were nearly 11 percent lower than at peer hospitals.
The fifth edition of the Solucient 100 Top Hospitals®:
Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success study analyzed acute care
hospitals nationwide using detailed empirical performance data from
2001, including publicly available Medicare MEDPAR data and Medicare
cost reports. The measures were calculated for three classes of
hospitals with the following number of winners in each:
- Teaching with Cardiovascular Residency Programs - 30 winners
- Teaching without Cardiovascular Residency Programs - 40 winners
- Community - 30 winners
The study scored facilities according to key measures:
risk-adjusted medical mortality, risk-adjusted surgical mortality,
complications, percentage of CABG patients with internal mammary
artery use, procedure volume, severity-adjusted average length of
stay, and wage and severity-adjusted average cost. More information on this study and other 100 Top Hospitals
research is available at
100tophospitals.com
. Minneapolis-based Abbott Northwestern Hospital and Coon
Rapids-based Mercy Hospital are part of Allina Hospitals &
Clinics, a non-profit network of hospitals, clinics and other health
care services.
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