Leapfrog highlights 2011 top hospitals, with lots of Kaiser love

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It’s that time of year when hospitals find out who provided healthcare services worthy of The Leapfrog Group's 2011 Top Hospital list. The 11th annual survey has given 65 hospitals “Top Hospital” designations, based on their ability to reduce medical errors, readmissions and mortality and gives particular credence to the California Kaiser facilities.

The survey is based on three aspects of hospital care: how patients fare, resources utilized and the management of practices that promote safety and quality. Hospitals report data on these three categories and data are compared nationally.

This year’s rankings highlight the accomplishments of teaching hospitals, children’s hospitals and community hospitals in rural, suburban and urban settings.

The top hospitals list is chosen from nearly 1,200 hospitals that voluntarily and publicly report performance measures.

The 2011 top Leapfrog named hospitals are (alphabetical by state):

California
Kaiser Permanente Antioch Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Panorama City Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Richmond Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Roseville Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente San Diego Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente South Bay Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente South San Francisco Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Vacaville Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Walnut Creek Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center
Mills-Peninsula Health Services
Stanford Hospital and Clinics
UC San Diego Health System, Hillcrest

Florida

Baptist Health South Florida Homestead Hospital, in Homestead

Illinois

NorthShore University HealthSystem-Evanston Hospal
NorthShore University HealthSystem-Glenbrook Hospital
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago

Massachusetts
Baystate Medical Center, Springfield
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston

Maryland
Anne Arundel Medical Center, Annapolis
University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore

Michigan
Detroit Receiving Hospital/University Health Center, Detroit
Spectrum Health Blodgett Hospital, Grand Rapids
Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital, Grand Rapids
St. Joseph Mercy Oakland, Ann Arbor
University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor

Minnesota

Regions Hospital, St. Paul
St. Mary's Hospital of Rochester

North Carolina
University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill

New Jersey
Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack
The Valley Hospital of Ridgewood, Ridgewood

New Mexico
Presbyterian Hospital, Albuquerque

New York
Montefiore Medical Center, Weiler Division, Bronx
Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo

Ohio
The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, Columbus
The Christ Hospital of Cincinnati
University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland

Pennsylvania
Lehigh Valley Hospital, Bethlehem

South Carolina
Bon Secours St. Francis Health System – Downtown, Greenville

Tennessee

Vanderbilt University Hospital, Nashville

Washington
Swedish Medical Center First Hill Campus, Seattle
Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle

2011 Top Rural Hospitals
Mariners Hospital, Tavernier, Fla.
Miles Memorial Hospital, Damariscotta, Maine
Sebasticook Valley Hospital, Pittsfield, Maine

2011 Leapfrog Top Children’s Hospital
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
CHOC Children's, Orange, Calif.
Children's National Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago
Children's Hospital Boston
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota-St. Paul
Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota- Minneapolis
Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio
Cook Children's Medical Center, Fort Worth, Texas

 

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