Mason City, IA - Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa is one again named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals by Thomson Healthcare, a health information company. The award recognizes hospitals which have achieved excellence in clinical outcomes, patient safety, financial performance, and efficiency. This is the sixth year Mercy-North Iowa as been recognized with this honor.
“Being named to this year’s 100 Top Hospitals list is especially gratifying due to the many challenges many rural health care organizations continue to experience,” said Jim FitzPatrick, President/CEO, Mercy-North Iowa. “As the only hospital in the state of
Iowa to be recognized with this honor, it affirms to us that it is truly our team - physicians, mid-level providers, leaders, volunteers, and support staff - which sets us apart from other institutions around the country.”
According to the study, the highest performance levels in patient safety were achieved by the 100 hospitals in the study that delivered the highest balanced performance across quality, efficiency, and financial stability. If all hospitals had performed at the level of these leading hospitals on the eight patient safety measures studied, hospitals would have saved $253 million and 7,914 lives during the time period the study examined.
“Employers, health plans, and hospitals need to take note that we have entered a new phase in driving transformation of the healthcare industry,” said Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president in the Center for Healthcare Improvement at Thomson Healthcare. “Hospitals setting new levels of patient safety are those with the highest balanced scores across quality, efficiency, and financial performance.”
The 15th edition of the Thomson 100 Top Hospitals: National Benchmarks for Success study uses a balanced scorecard approach and scores hospitals according to eight key organization-wide measures: risk-adjusted mortality, risk-adjusted complications, patient safety composite, average core measures scores, severity-adjusted average length of stay, expense per adjusted discharge, profit from operations, and cash-to-debt ratio.
