Truven’s top 100 hospitals: Here’s who made the cut for 2015

Truven Health Analytics named its top 100 hospitals for 2015, based on traditional performance measures such as 30-day readmission and mortality rates as well as a new metric on Medicare spending per beneficiary.

The annual awards are divided into five categories: teaching, major teaching, small, medium and large community hospitals. The winners, whose names were published March 2, showed a consistency in patient-related quality performance compared with hospitals that did not make the list, according to Truven. Overall, they achieved lower risk-adjusted mortality and 30-day rates, reported fewer complications, had fewer adverse safety events, followed evidence-based protocols, posted low expenses and scored higher on patient satisfaction surveys.

If hospitals nationwide followed these standards, Truven estimated, they would trim 2 percent off episode-of-illness expenses and save a total of $1.8 billion. Reaching these quality standards would result in 126,500 fewer deaths, 109,000 fewer incidences of patient complications and take a half day off the length of stay for a typical patient.

Hospitals with a long history of improvement and overall organizational performance also received Everest Awards. The list of top hospitals, with Everest Award winners in bold, are below.

Major teaching hospitals

• Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oaklawn, Ill.
• Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago
• Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, Ill.
• Christiana Care Health System, Newark, Del.
• Duke University Hospital, Durham, N.C.
• Emory University Hospital, Atlanta
• Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
• OhioHealth Doctors Hospital, Columbus
• Providence Hospital and Medical Center, Southfield, Mich.
• Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
• St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, Mich.
• St. Luke's University Hospital – Bethlehem, Penn.
• Stanford Hospital, Stanford, Calif.
• University of California San Diego Medical Center
• University of Michigan Hospitals & Health Centers, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Teaching hospitals

• Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis
• Aspirus Wausau Hospital, Wausau, Wisc.
• Banner Boswell Medical Center, Sun City, Ariz.
• Billings Clinic Hospital, Billings, Mont.
• Kettering Medical Center, Kettering, Ohio
• LDS Hospital, Sal Lake City, Utah
• McKay-Dee Hospital Center, Ogden, Utah
• Mercy Medical Center, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
• Meriter Hospital, Madison, Wisc.
• Mission Hospital, Asheville, N.C.
• North Colorado Medical Center, Greeley, Colo.
• OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus
• PIH Health Hospital, Whittier, Calif.
• Poudre Valley Hospital, Fort Collins, Colo.
• Riverside Medical Center, Kankakee, Ill.
• Rose Medical Center, Denver
• Saint Thomas West Hospital, Nashville, Tenn.
• Saint Vincent Hospital, Worcester, Mass.
• Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn Medical Center, Scottsdale, Ariz.
• Scripps Green Hospital, La Jolla, Calif.
• St. Cloud Hospital, St. Cloud, Minn.
• St. Luke's Hospital, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
• St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital, Indianapolis
• Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento, Calif.
• Virginia Hospital Center, Arlington. Va.

Large community hospitals

• Advocate Condell Medical Center, Libertyville, Ill.
• Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital, Downers Grove, Ill.
• Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center, Medford, Ore.
• Beverly Hospital, Beverly, Mass.
• Centinela Hospital Medical Center, Inglewood, Calif.
• Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield, Ill.
• Delray Medical Center, Delray Beach, Fla.
• Hamilton Medical Center, Dalton, Ga.
• Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital, Texas
• Little Company of Mary Hospital, Evergreen Park, Ill.
• Mercy Hospital, Coon Rapids, Minn.
• Mercy Hospital Springfield, Springfield, Mo.
• Mosaic Life Care, Saint Joseph, Mo.
• Paradise Valley Hospital, National City, Calif.
• Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center, Torrance, Calif.
• Roper Hospital, Charleston, S.C.
• St. David's Medical Center, Austin, Texas
• St. Francis Downtown, Greenville, S.C.
• Stormont-Vail HealthCare, Topeka, Kan.
• West Florida Hospital, Pensacola, Fla.

 Medium community hospitals

• Aurora BayCare Medical Center, Green Bay, Wisc.
• Blanchard Valley Hospital, Findlay, Ohio
• Chino Valley Medical Center, Chino, Calif.
• Desert Valley Hospital, Victorville, Calif.
• Dupont Hospital, Fort Wayne, Ind.
• French Hospital Medical Center, San Luis Obispo, Calif.
• Garden Grove Hospital Medical Center, Garden Grove, Calif.
• Holland Hospital, Holland, Mich.
• Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital, Sugar Land, Texas
• Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Lawrence, Kan.
• Logan Regional Hospital, Logan, Utah
• Maple Grove Hospital, Maple Grove, Minn.
• Mercy Hospital Anderson, Cincinnati
• Shasta Regional Medical Center, Redding, Calif.
• St. David's Round Rock Medical Center, Round Rock, Texas
• St. John Medical Center, Westlake, Ohio
• St. Vincent Carmel Hospital, Carmel, Ind.
• Sycamore Medical Center, Miamisburg, Ohio
• Timpanogos Regional Hospital, Orem, Utah
• West Valley Medical Center, Caldwell, Idaho

Small community hospitals

• Aurora Medical Center Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Wisc.
• Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital, St. Louis
• Buffalo Hospital, Buffalo, Minn.
• Fort Madison Community Hospital, Fort Madison, Iowa
• Greer Memorial Hospital, Greer, S.C.
• Hill Country Memorial Hospital, Fredericksburg, Texas
• Lakeview Hospital, Bountiful, Utah
• Mercy Defiance Hospital, Defiance, Ohio
• OhioHealth Dublin Methodist Hospital, Dublin, Ohio
• Parkview Huntington Hospital, Huntington, Ind.
• Renown South Meadows Medical Center, Reno, Nev.
• Riverton Hospital, Riverton, Utah
• Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast, Miramar Beach, Fla.
• Samaritan Regional Health System, Ashland, Ohio
• St. Francis Regional Medical Center, Shakopee, Minn.
• St. Joseph's Hospital Breese, Breese, Ill.
• Sutter Tracy Community Hospital, Tracy, Calif.
• Tanner Medical Center-Villa Rica, Villa Rica, Ga.
• Valley View Medical Center, Cedar City, Utah
• Woodwinds Health Campus, Woodbury, Minn.