Hospital Spends Thousands Less Per
Procedure,
Releases Patients Sooner than Peers
Mission Heart has been named one of the nation’s Top 50
Cardiovascular Hospitals by Truven Health Analytics, a leading authority on
clinical quality. Mission Heart is the only hospital in the Carolinas to
receive this recognition. This marks the 9th time Mission has
been named a Top 50 Cardiovascular Hospital by Truven Health Analytics.
“Mission Hospital is honored to be recognized by Truven
Health Analytics as one of the nation’s Top 50 Cardiovascular Hospitals,” said
Jill Hoggard-Green, PhD, RN, COO of Mission Health
and President of Mission Hospital and Mission Medical Associates. “This
is a reflection of the hard work and commitment of our staff to provide high
quality cardiovascular care and achieve superior clinical outcomes for the
patients we serve in western North Carolina.”
If all cardiovascular providers in the U.S. performed at the
level of Mission Hospital and the other top 50 hospitals, more than:
- 9,500 additional lives could be saved
- More than $1 billion could be saved
- Nearly 3,000 additional bypass and angioplasty patients could be complication free
The study evaluated general and applicable specialty,
short-term, acute care, non-federal U.S. hospitals treating a broad spectrum of
cardiology patients. It found that Truven Top 50 Cardiovascular Hospitals spent
at least 11 percent less per case and a patient’s length of stay in the
hospital decreased by more than 15 percent compared to their peers.
“We are honored that Mission Heart is recognized as one of
the top heart hospitals in the country,” said Dr. Chang Lim, Heart Service Line
Leader at Mission Hospital. “This recognition is a direct result of the
outstanding efforts our caregivers make each day to benefit the community we
serve. Our team of cardiac surgeons and cardiologists, nurses and staff
continue to achieve exceptional outcomes and deliver high quality care to our
patients.”
Truven Health Analytics researchers analyzed Medicare
Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR) data, Medicare cost reports and Centers
for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare data. They scored
hospitals in key performance areas: risk-adjusted mortality, risk-adjusted
complications, core measures (a group of measures that assess process of care),
percentage of coronary bypass patients with internal mammary artery use, 30-day
mortality rates, 30-day readmission rates, severity-adjusted average length of
stay, and wage- and severity-adjusted average cost.
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