- Awards recognize excellence in clinical outcomes, operational efficiency,
patient experience and financial health
- Prime Healthcare hospitals have ranked among our nation’s 100 Top
Hospitals 58 times
- For the first time, annual rankings include measure of hospitals’
contribution to community health, focusing on equity
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Fortune/IBM Watson Health list identifies best practices
to help healthcare organizations achieve consistent, balanced, and sustainable
high performance
ONTARIO, CALIF – April 27, 2021 – Five Prime Healthcare hospitals
have been named to the
Fortune/IBM Watson Health® 100 Top Hospitals list, which recognizes the top-performing hospitals in the nation. Three of
the five hospitals honored this year also received an “Everest Award,
”which recognizes hospitals that have earned the “100 Top
Hospitals” designation and ranked among the top 100 hospitals in
the nation for rate-of-improvement during a five-year period.
With this year’s recognition, Prime Healthcare and Prime Healthcare
hospitals have ranked among the nation’s 100 top hospitals 58 times.
This year’s annual ranking also introduces the measure of hospitals’
contributions to community health with a focus on equity.
Recipients of the 100 Top Hospital award in 2021 include:
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East Liverpool City Hospital in East Liverpool, Ohio, a four-time honoree and recipient of the Everest
Award for three consecutive years (2018-2020)
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Mission Regional Medical Center in Mission, Texas, a two-time honoree and recipient of the Everest Award
in 2020 and 2021
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Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nevada, a two-time honoree and recipient of the Everest Award
in 2020 and 2021
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Coshocton Regional Medical Center in Coshocton, Ohio, a first-time honoree
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Lehigh Regional Medical Center in Lehigh Acres, Florida, a first-time honoree and first-time recipient
of the Everest Award
The Prime Healthcare hospitals on this list demonstrate a relentless commitment
to high value, patient-centered care, improving population health and
advancing health equity for impacted communities,” said Ekta Punwani,
Leader of the 100 Top Hospitals Program. “Year after year, Prime
Healthcare’s staff, nurses and physicians demonstrate their focus
on providing the highest-quality and safest care that results in this
national recognition. The COVID-19 crisis was a catalyst for reinvention,
and we believe these top-performing Prime hospitals are positioned to
emerge stronger and smarter out of this crisis.”
IBM Watson Health uses a rigorous evaluation of 2,675 short-term, acute
care, non-federal hospitals in the U.S to identify the top hospitals.
The annual list recognizes excellence in clinical outcomes, operational
efficiency, patient experience, and financial health. IBM Watson Health
established the list to help identify best practices that may help other
healthcare organizations achieve consistent, balanced, and sustainable
high performance.
“Prime’s mission is to bring quality compassionate care to
communities, expand access, promote health equity by bringing care to
those most in need, and improve the health of all we serve,” said
Sunny Bhatia, MD, Chief Medical Officer for Prime Healthcare. “Many of these award-winning hospitals have been transformed as
members of Prime, and this national recognition reflects our unique ability
to save community hospitals and ensure they deliver the highest quality
of care. Prime’s mission has been especially critical during the
worldwide pandemic. We are committed to emerging better and stronger and
are grateful to our physicians, nurses and staff who dedicate themselves
to providing exceptional care.”
This year’s ranking of top hospitals introduces a measure of hospitals’
contributions to community health with a focus on equity developed by
a team of experts at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity and the
Bloomberg American Health Initiative at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
of Public Health. For the ranking, hospitals were surveyed across three
components: 1) assessing hospital contributions as a provider of critical
services for community health and preventive care; 2) identifying the
ways hospitals contribute as community partners, teaming with local organizations
to implement critical programs; and 3) focusing on ways hospitals promote
community health as anchor institutions supporting local economic and
social progress. Hospitals received credit for meeting a certain number
of best-practice standards in each component. The new measure led to a
change in ranking for more than one-third of the 100 hospitals.
“We are honored to have many of our Prime Healthcare Foundation hospitals
named as national Top 100 hospitals,” said
Kavitha Bhatia, MD, MMM, FAAP, President and Chair of Prime Healthcare
Foundation. “Our Foundation hospitals have lived their mission of saving lives
and serving communities at a time when that mission has never been more
important. This was a year when the delivery of compassionate, quality
care has been the most challenging, which is why this honor is especially
significant. We are grateful for the unwavering and selfless dedication
of our leaders, physicians, staff and especially our frontline caregivers
for their remarkable and life-changing service.”
“We are proud of all of the hospitals, health systems and their dedicated
clinicians and staff included among the Fortune/IBM Watson Health 100
Top Hospitals,” said Irene Dankwa-Mullan, MD, MPH, Chief Health
Equity Officer and Deputy Chief Health Officer at IBM Watson Health. “From
small community hospitals to major teaching hospitals, organizations on
this list demonstrate a relentless commitment to high value, patient-centered
care and innovation. They also recognize the importance of contributing
to the health of their communities and we applaud them for their programs
that help provide equitable quality care and address health disparities.”
About IBM Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals® Program: The IBM Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals Program’s annual studies
result in the Fortune/IBM Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals list, Fortune/IBM
Watson Health 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals list and IBM Watson Health
15 Top Health Systems list. Organizations do not apply or pay for this
honor or pay to promote their award. Award-winning hospitals and health
systems serve as a model of excellence for the industry. Visit http://www.100tophospitals.com/
for more information.
About Prime Healthcare and Prime Healthcare Foundation: Prime Healthcare is an award-winning health system
operating 46 hospitals and more than 300 outpatient locations in 14 states,
providing over 2.6 million patient visits annually. It is one of the nation’s
leading health systems with nearly 50,000 employees and physicians dedicated
to providing the highest quality healthcare. Fifteen of the Prime Healthcare
hospitals are members of the Prime Healthcare Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit public charity. Based in Ontario, California, Prime Healthcare is nationally recognized
for award-winning quality care and has been named a Top 10 and Top 15
Health System by IBM Watson Health. Its hospitals have been named among
the nation’s “100 Top Hospitals” 58 times and have received
more Patient Safety Excellence Awards from Healthgrades than any other
health system in the past five years. To learn more, please visit www.primehealthcare.com.
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