Solucient's 100 Top Hospitals

We are proud to announce our selection as a 2005 award winner of the Solucient 100 Top Hospitals®: Cardiovascular Benchmark for Success Study. The study released Oct. 31, identifies Penn State Hershey Medical Center’s comprehensive program as one of the nation’s top cardiovascular facilities. The study concludes that if all hospitals provided the same quality of care as the 100 top hospitals, survival rates would increase by more than 10,000 patients each year. It also estimates that complications of care could be decreased for more than 1,100 additional patients per year.

Solucient developed the study to identify high-performing cardiovascular hospitals at a national level and to set performance targets for clinical outcomes and management of this high-risk, high-cost and high-volume service line. To qualify, hospitals must achieve high scores across seven equally weighted areas of performance measurement.

Penn State Heart & Vascular Institute was one of only three academic medical centers in the state and one of only eight Pennsylvania hospitals overall to make the list. For study details, visit www.100tophospitals.com.