Caritas St. Elizabeth's Honored for Performance Improvement by Thomson Reuters

8/12/2008

Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Selected Among the Nation’s Top Performance Improvement Leaders by Thomson Reuters

Teaching Hospital Achieves National Benchmarks for Rate and Consistency of Improvement in Clinical Outcomes, Safety, Hospital Efficiency and Financial Stability

BOSTON—August 12, 2008—For the second consecutive year, Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center and its senior management team have been named one of the 100 Top Hospitals® Performance Improvement Leader by Thomson Healthcare in the annual Thomson Performance Improvement Leaders study. The study examines the performance of more than 2,800 U.S. hospitals in a variety of clinical, financial and operational areas.

Caritas St. Elizabeth’s was rated on eight factors that reflect clinical outcomes and efficiency, such as patient mortality, medical complications, patient safety, length of stay, expenses, profitability, cash-to-debt ratio and use of evidence-based medicine. Caritas St. Elizabeth’s is one of 100 hospitals that improved the most from 2002 to 2006.

“Being named to this esteemed list two years in a row underscores the vast efforts on behalf of our medical staff to provide exceptional care to our patients,” said Chris O’Connor, president of Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center. “We are fully devoted to our mission of providing world-class care to our patients in the communities where they live, and being recognized as a 100 Top Performance Leader is a great honor.”

The Thomson 100 Top Performance Leaders study analyzed publicly available Medicare cost reports, Medicare Provider Analysis and Review data and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) outpatient data.

“This study identifies superior leadership, based on the success of hospital executive teams’ long-term strategies for strengthening performance,” said Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president for performance improvement and 100 Top Hospitals programs at Thomson Reuters. “These are true ‘Good to Great’ leadership teams that have focused on better serving their patients and communities.”

About the Thomson 100 Top Hospitals Program
The 100 Top Hospitals: Performance Improvement Leaders studies and awards recognize hospital CEOs and senior management teams that have led their organizations to achieve the fastest rate of consistent annual organizational improvement. By trending the current “100 Top” criteria across the most recent five years of public data, this custom study allows healthcare organizations to observe and compare the consistency and rate of performance improvement of a hospital as a whole and by individual criteria.

The 100 Performance Leaders list is available at http://www.100tophospitals.com/winners/pilwinners.aspx.  

About Thomson Healthcare
Thomson Healthcare is the leading provider of decision support solutions that help organizations across the healthcare industry improve clinical and business performance. Thomson Healthcare products and services help clinicians, hospitals, employers, health plans, government agencies, and pharmaceutical companies manage the cost and improve the quality of healthcare. For more information, visit (www.thomsonhealthcare.com).

About Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center
Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center is a major academic medical center affiliated with Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. Areas of medical excellence include cardiology and cardiovascular research, neurosciences, women’s health, high-risk obstetrics, bone and joint health, hematology/oncology, pulmonary medicine and gastroenterology. Caritas St. Elizabeth’s is a member of Caritas Christi Health Care, the second largest healthcare system in New England.