CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE:
IBM) Watson Health today announced its 2022 Fortune/IBM Watson
Health 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals list, naming the
top-performing U.S. hospitals for inpatient cardiovascular
services. This year's study included 951 U.S. hospitals with
cardiovascular service lines. Based on comparisons between the
study winners and a peer group of similar hospitals in the study,
the winners delivered better outcomes while operating more
efficiently and at a lower cost. The list of the top cardiovascular
hospitals was published by Fortune today.
"The Fortune/IBM Watson Health 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals
study focuses on one of healthcare's most important service lines
that affects hundreds of thousands of patients lives annually and
adds billions of dollars to our nation's overall healthcare costs,"
said Gretchen Purcell Jackson, MD,
PhD, Chief Health and Science Officer, IBM Watson Health. "That's
why publishing new and achievable benchmarks for cardiovascular
services is important and has the potential to make a large and
lasting impact on the quality and cost of care for heart patients
across the U.S."
Based on the methodology used by Watson Health, the study
concludes that if all United
States hospitals' cardiovascular service lines performed at
the level of these study winners, some 6,400 additional lives and
roughly $1.4 billion could be saved,
and 5,000 additional bypass and angioplasty patients could be
complication-free.
Compared to similar cardiovascular hospitals, this year's 50 Top
Cardiovascular Hospitals winners had better results on indicators
intended to measure clinical outcomes, operational efficiency,
financial performance, and patient experience. The measures
evaluate inpatient and 30-day mortality, patient complications,
30-day readmission, average length of stay, 30-day episode-of-care
payment, and adjusted cost per case, for acute myocardial
infarction (AMI), coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), percutaneous
coronary intervention (PCI) and heart failure (HF) patients.
The study data also showed that there was an overall 13.5
percent decline in the volume of patients treated for these
cardiovascular conditions from 2019 to 2020. This decline was most
likely related to the COVID-19 pandemic that resulted in many
patients delaying or avoiding care and hospitals focusing on
treating only patients with urgent needs. For the heart patients
who were treated, the outcomes were similar to previous years,
indicating that quality of care was stable in the observed
hospitals despite the pandemic.
New to the study this year is the inclusion of a patient
experience measure based on the Hospital Consumer Assessment of
Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey as reported in the
CMS Hospital Compare data set. Patient perception of care – or the
patient "experience" – is crucial to the balanced scorecard concept
and has a direct effect on a hospital's ability to remain
competitive in the market. As with other measures, winning
hospitals outperformed their peers in the HCAHPS measure in all
comparison groups.
Fortune/IBM Watson Health 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals
List (by category)
* Hospitals are listed in alphabetical
order. The order of hospitals reflected below is not to be
construed as any indication of performance or
recommendation.
Teaching hospitals with cardiovascular residency
programs*
Ascension Borgess Hospital (Kalamazoo, MI)
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center (Charlotte, NC)
Baylor Scott & White Medical
Center - Temple (Temple, TX)
Baylor Scott & White The Heart
Hospital - Plano (Plano, TX)
Baylor University Medical Center
(Dallas, TX)
Froedert Hospital (Milwaukee,
WI)
Intermountain Medical Center (Murray,
UT)
Kettering Medical Center (Kettering,
OH)
Mayo Clinic Florida (Jacksonville,
FL)
Mayo Clinic Rochester (Rochester,
MN)
Mercy Medical Center (Cedar Rapids,
IA)
Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital (Winfield, IL)
Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago,
IL)
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (Philadelphia, PA)
Piedmont Atlanta Hospital (Atlanta,
GA)
Riverside Methodist Hospital (Columbus,
OH)
St. Luke's University Hospital - Bethlehem (Bethlehem, PA)
Summa Health System - Akron Campus (Akron, OH)
UNC REX Hospital (Raleigh, NC)
University Hospital (Madison,
WI)
Teaching hospitals without cardiovascular residency
programs*
Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital Pensacola (Pensacola, FL)
Aspirus Wausau Hospital (Wausau,
WI)
Atrium Health Pineville (Charlotte,
NC)
Baton Rouge General - Bluebonnet (Baton
Rouge, LA)
Baylor Scott & White Medical
Center - Hillcrest (Waco, TX)
Beaumont Hospital, Troy
(Troy, MI)
Bronson Methodist Hospital (Kalamazoo,
MI)
Chester County Hospital (West Chester,
PA)
Chippenham Hospital (Richmond,
VA)
Eisenhower Medical Center (Rancho Mirage,
CA)
Missouri Baptist Medical Center (Saint
Louis, MO)
Overland Park Regional Medical Center (Overland Park, KS)
Providence St. Patrick Hospital (Missoula, MT)
Redmond Regional Medical Center (Rome,
GA)
Sarasota Memorial Hospital (Sarasota,
FL)
St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor Hospital (Ypsilanti, MI)
St. Joseph's Hospital
(Tampa, FL)
The Medical Center of Aurora
(Aurora, CO)
The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital
(Greensboro, NC)
TriStar Centennial Medical Center (Nashville, TN)
Community hospitals*
Asante Rogue Regional Medical
Center (Medford, OR)
Ascension St. Vincent Heart Center (Indianapolis, IN)
Bellin Hospital (Green Bay,
WI)
Harlingen Medical Center (Harlingen,
TX)
McLaren Northern Michigan (Petoskey,
MI)
Oklahoma Heart Hospital North (Oklahoma
City, OK)
Oklahoma Heart Hospital South (Oklahoma
City, OK)
Parkwest Medical Center (Knoxville,
TN)
Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center (Reno, NV)
UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital (Waterloo, IA)
The Watson Health 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals study is based
on quantitative research that uses a balanced scorecard approach,
based on publicly available data, to identify the top
cardiovascular hospitals in the U.S. To determine the
cardiovascular hospitals included on the Fortune/IBM Watson Health
50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals list, IBM Watson Health researchers
evaluated 951 short-term, acute care, non-federal U.S. hospitals
that treat a broad spectrum of cardiology patients. It includes
patients requiring medical management, as well as those who receive
invasive or surgical procedures. Because multiple measures are
used, a hospital must provide all forms of cardiovascular care,
including open heart surgery, to be included in the study.
All research was based on the following public data sets:
Medicare cost reports, Medicare Provider Analysis and Review
(MEDPAR) data, and Hospital Compare data from the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare website.
Hospitals do not apply for awards, and winners do not pay to market
this honor.
For more information, visit
https://www.ibm.com/products/50-top-cardiovascular-hospitals.
About the 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
https://www.ibm.com/products/100-top-hospitals for more
information.
About IBM Watson Health
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analytics, and technology partner for the health industry.
Supported by the innovation of IBM and intelligence of Watson,
we are committed to helping build smarter health ecosystems.
Through the combination of our deep industry expertise in health,
data and analytics, actionable insights, and reputation for
security and trust, Watson Health is working together with its
clients and partners to help them achieve simpler processes, better
care insights, faster breakthroughs, and improved experiences for
people around the world. Learn more
at https://www.ibm.com/watson-health.
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