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SRHS Named Top 100 In
Performance Improvement
Singing River Hospital
System, including both Ocean Springs Hospital and Singing River
Hospital, has been named one of the nation's top performance improvement
leader hospitals by Solucient, a company providing independent
comparative measurements of cost, quality and market performance for the
health care industry. Over 2,500 hospitals were included in the
study.
SRHS and its senior
management team were recognized for developing consistent and effective
organization-wide performance improvement across critical measures at a
faster rate than other U.S. hospitals between 1999-2003.
"This recognition is a direct result of the efforts of our employees and
physicians at both of our hospitals," said Chris Anderson, SRHS Chief
Executive Officer. "Because of their consistent commitment to
providing the best medical care for our patients, we are being
recognized as an organization that is better prepared for the future."
This study by Solucient is the first attempt to measure U.S. hospitals'
ability to effect a culture of change in their organization. Nine
performance measures were examined at each hospital: risk-adjusted
mortality, risk-adjusted complications, average length of stay,
expenses, profitability, cash-to-debt ratio, growth in percent of
community served, tangible assists and risk adjusted patient safety
index. The study looked at all U.S. hospitals licensed to treat
Medicare patients, and used publicly available Medicare cost reports and
MedPAR data from 1999 - 2003.
Findings from the second edition of
Solucient's 100 Top Hospitals®: Performance Improvement Leaders (PIL)
is featured in the April 25, 2005 edition of Modem Healthcare magazine,
the leading trade journal for the hospital industry.
"Congratulation to our administration,
employees, Medical Staffs and Auxiliary members for achieving this great
honor," said Mike Heidelberg, President of the SRHS Board of Trustees.
"Their hard work and dedication to their patients and the community is
evident in their daily work, but now especially evident through the
honor of being named one of the top 100 performance improvement leaders
in the nation." "Our
Board of Trustees is very fortunate that we are offered the right
information to make the right decisions, but the success of our Hospital
System depends not on us, but on our employees, volunteers and
physicians who make daily decisions that enable Singing River Hospital
System to provide the best possible care to our community."
Jean Chenoweth, Senior Vice President of
Solucient's 100 Top Hospitals program, said the study is a major step
forward in objectively measuring the impact a superior management team
can have on an organization over time by instilling a culture of change.
"Please accept my personal congratulation to you and the Board of
Trustees on consistently improving the services you provide to your
community," Chenoweth said in a congratulatory letter to the Hospital
System. The study found that PIL hospitals made the following
gains between 1999 and 2003:
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Had fewer patient deaths,
complications, and adverse safety events than expected.
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Went from being
unprofitable to maintaining a healthy positive profit margin.
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Discharged patients
three-quarters of a day earlier in 2003 compared to 1999.
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Operating profit margin
rose more than six percentage points from -1.55 percent to +4.53
percent, while peer hospitals saw nearly flat profit margins.
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PIL hospitals went from
having 17 percent more deaths than expected in 1999 to having 7 percent
fewer deaths than expected in 2003.
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Expense per discharged
patient rose $399, or 7 percent, at PIL hospitals (over the five years)
while it rose $902, or 21 percent, at non-winning hospitals.
Study
Facts
More information on this
study and other 100 Top Hospitals research is available at
www.100tophospitals.com |
