The study — 100 Top Hospitals: Cardiovascular Benchmarks — examined the performance of 971 short-term, acute-care hospitals by analyzing outcomes for patients diagnosed with heart failure and heart attacks and for those who received coronary bypass surgery or percutaneous cardiovascular interventions such as angioplasties.
The study, in its 11th year, found that the Top 100 hospitals have:
• 17 percent lower mortality rates for heart attack patients.
• 10 percent lower mortality rates for heart failure patients.
• 27 percent lower mortality for bypass surgery patients.
• 22 percent lower mortality following PCI.
• Fewer post-operative complications (99 percent of patients were complication-free).
• Close to 12 percent shorter average hospital stay.
• 12 percent lower cost per case.
The top performing hospitals also perform over 50 percent more cardiac surgeries than peer hospitals, according to the report.
Read the list of Thomson Reuter’s 100 Top Hospitals for Cardiovascular Care.
