 100
Top Hospitals®:
Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success —
2002
Now in its fourth year, the
Solucient 100 Top Hospitals®:
Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success
study identifies hospitals that are
setting benchmark levels of performance
for cardiovascular services throughout the
nation. The 100 Top Hospitals:
Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success
study is part of the Solucient 100
Top Hospitals® initiative,
originally developed in 1993. The primary
objective is to identify the top hospitals
in the United States based solely upon
empirical findings from publicly available
performance data, and in doing so:
- Acknowledge high-performing
cardiovascular clinical and management
teams and seek to determine what drives
their performance
- Raise overall performance levels for
cardiovascular care
- Establish an annual baseline for
cardiovascular service performance given
a hospital's clinical business and the
industry's financial limitations, and
- Help all hospitals use the benchmarks
to reach the performance level of the
Solucient 100 Top Hospitals.
- Assist managed care organizations,
other insurers, and research
organizations in their own pursuit of
understanding differences in hospital
performance.
The ultimate goal of the Solucient 100
Top Hospitals: Cardiovascular Benchmarks
for Success study is to provide guidelines
to improve the standard of care in
cardiology. By identifying hospitals that
display superior performance in the
clinical management of cardiovascular
disease, we offer the health care industry
a direction for positive change and
information to help decrease the
variations in quality and financial
performance that continue to plague health
care today.
Based on comparisons between the
Solucient 100 Top Hospitals:
Cardiovascular Benchmarks Hospitals
and a peer group limited to similar
high-volume hospitals, we estimate that:
- If peer hospitals (non-winners)
provided the same quality of care as the
100 Top hospitals, survival rates would
increase by nearly 4,400 patients each
year.
- Nearly $880 million dollars could be
saved in one year alone-that's a average
savings of more than $1,400 in cardiology
costs per case for each peer hospital.
- Complications of care could also
decrease in peer hospitals. Infections
after surgery would plummet by nearly 18
percent, and post-procedural hemorrhage
could fall 26 percent.
- The length of stay for cardiac
patients could fall in peer hospitals by
more than half a day on average.
Nationally, we estimate that this could
eliminate 402,000 patient days a year.
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