LGH on America’s 100 Top Hospitals List for 8th Time in 10 Years
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Lancaster General Hospital was selected again as one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals for 2006 by Solucient, a leading provider of information and solutions to improve the cost and quality of healthcare. This is the 8th LGH has been honored in the last 10 years, an achievement shared by only a handful of hospitals across the nation.
Now in its 14th year, the 100 Top Hospitals: National Benchmark for Success Study recognizes institutions that demonstrate superior clinical, operational and financial performance in overall service.
Through rigorous evaluation of information by Solucient’s physicians and statisticians, the company compares the performance of hospitals nationwide, using objective data in five critical areas: clinical outcomes, patient safety, operational efficiency, financial stability and growth. The Solucient study is significant because its research data comes from Medicare records and includes thousands of the nation’s hospitals.
Lancaster General Hospital is one of only four Pennsylvania hospitals to appear on the 2006 list, published in the March12 edition of Modern Healthcare magazine. It is the only Lancaster County hospital to have ever appeared on the 100 Top Hospitals: National Benchmarks for Success listing.
To once again be named among the top hospitals in America further affirms the hard work and contributions of our employees, physicians, community board members and volunteers which establishes LGH as a high-quality hospital capable of meeting the healthcare challenges of today and the future. This is an honor all in our community truly can share,” said Thomas Beeman, President and CEO of Lancaster General.
The 100 Top Hospitals distinction includes Lancaster General Hospital, Lancaster General Women & Babies Hospital, Lancaster General Health Campus, and five other outpatient facilities located throughout Lancaster County. The hospital is a keystone of the non-profit Lancaster General health system, which also includes Visiting Nurse Association of Lancaster County and Lancaster General Medical Group, a network of Lancaster County physician practices.
Solucient’s report, available at
www.100tophospitals.com, states that if all acute-care hospitals performed at the same level as the nation’s top hospitals, more than 100,000 additional patients would survive each year; more than 114,000 patient complications would be avoided annually; expenses would decline by an aggregate $10.9 billion a year; and the average patient stay would decrease by more than half a day.
The 100 Top Hospitals treated sicker patients requiring more complex treatment, yet had better patient outcomes and lower costs, according to Solucient.