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11/24/2015 12:00:00 AM CENTRAL
Updated: 12/3/2015 10:17:15 AM CENTRAL
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St. Francis Named Top 100 Hospital by Truven Health Analytics

 

St. Francis Regional Medical Center has been named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals® by Truven Health Analytics,TM a leading provider of data-driven analytics and solutions to improve the cost and quality of healthcare.

The Truven Health 100 Top Hospitals® study identifies hospitals and leadership teams that provide the highest level of value to their communities, based on a national balanced scorecard. The 100 Top Hospitals balanced scorecard measures overall organizational performance across 11 key analytic measures including patient care, operational efficiency and financial stability. The study has been conducted annually since 1993. This is the second time St. Francis has been recognized with this honor.

“This award is the result of the hard work and passion of our employees, leadership and medical staff to achieve a vision,” said Mike McMahan, president, St. Francis. “That vision is to make St. Francis and our communities among the best and safest places to receive healthcare in America.”

With 86 private rooms, St. Francis Regional Medical Center ranks in the top 10 percent of hospitals nationwide for care and quality. St. Francis is jointly owned by Allina Health, Park Nicollet Health Services and Essentia Health Critical Access Group. Its Catholic identity is sponsored by the Benedictine Sisters of the St. Scholastica Monastery.

To conduct the 100 Top Hospitals study, Truven Health researchers evaluated close to 3,000 short-term, acute-care, nonfederal hospitals. Risk-adjusted methodologies were used to analyze public information — Medicare cost reports, Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MEDPAR) data, and core measures and patient satisfaction data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare reports. Hospitals do not apply, and winners do not pay to market this honor.

The winning hospitals were announced in the March 2, 2015, edition of Modern Healthcare magazine. St. Francis and Buffalo Hospital were the only two hospitals in Minnesota chosen for in the honor, in the small community class. Other Minnesota hospitals included Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis; Mercy Hospital, Coon Rapids; Maple Grove Hospital, Maple Grove; and St. Cloud Hospital, St. Cloud.

St. Francis, Buffalo Hospital, Abbott Northwestern Hospital and Mercy Hospital are all Allina Health hospitals.

“This year’s 100 Top Hospitals represent the highest national standards in hospital care and management today. They set the benchmarks for peers around the country to follow — consistently delivering outstanding quality of care, satisfaction and community value at a reasonable cost,” said Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president for performance improvement and the 100 Top Hospitals program at Truven Health Analytics. “The majority of the 2015 award winners have produced year-to-year performance improvement, as well. This speaks to the consistent focus on excellence by the entire organization and the men and women who serve patients.”

The study shows that if all hospitals in the U.S. performed at the level of this year's winners:

§ 126,471 additional lives could be saved

§ 108,926 additional patients could be complication-free

§ $1.8 billion in inpatient costs could be saved

§ The average patient stay would decrease by half a day

§ Episode-of-illness expense would be 2 percent lower than the peer average

 

More information on this study and other 100 Top Hospitals research is available at 100tophospitals.com.