Thomson Reuters Awards St. Elizabeth for Leadership
Red Bluff, California – August 12, 2008 – St. Elizabeth Community Hospital was named one of the nation's performance improvement leaders by Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals.
St. Elizabeth Community Hospital and its senior management team were recognized for being one of a hundred hospitals making the greatest progress in improving hospital-wide performance over five consecutive years (2002-2006). The 2007 Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals®: Performance Improvement Leaders have set national benchmarks for the rate and consistency of improvement in clinical outcomes, safety, hospital efficiency, and financial stability. St. Elizabeth Community Hospital and its medical staff have made major strides in increasing the quality and efficiency of services locally.
Findings from the fifth edition of the Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals®: Performance Improvement Leaders study appears in the August 11, 2008, issue of Modern Healthcare magazine.
“I am proud to be a member of the dedicated and compassionate St. Elizabeth team. We are excited about this recent distinction and thank our employees, medical staff and volunteers for making this achievement possible;” offered Jon Halfhide, hospital president.
St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, a recent recipient of the Thomson 100 Top Hospitals: Benchmarks for Success award, brings state-of-the-art healthcare to Tehama and Glenn Counties. This hospital, with 76 licensed beds and a trauma level 3, offers advanced services including endoscopic and laser surgery. St. Elizabeth Community Hospital provides critical, adult, pediatric and maternity care, as well as Home Health and Hospice programs.
“This study identifies superior leadership, based on the success of hospital executive teams’ long-term strategies for strengthening performance,” said Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president for performance improvement and 100 Top Hospitals programs at Thomson Reuters. “These are true ’Good to Great’ leadership teams that have focused on improving quality, efficiency, use of evidence-based medicine, and financial stability in order to better serve their patients and communities.”
The Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals: Performance Improvement Leaders study analyzed acute care hospitals nationwide using detailed empirical performance data from years 2002 through 2006, including publicly available Medicare MedPAR data, Medicare cost reports, and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) outpatient data.
The study rated hospitals on eight factors — patient mortality, medical complications, patient safety, length of stay, expenses, profitability, cash-to-debt ratio, and use of evidence-based medicine. Researchers evaluated 2,867 short-term, acute care, non-federal hospitals grouped into five categories: major teaching hospitals, other teaching hospitals, large community hospitals, medium-sized community hospitals, and small community hospitals.
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