News: Healthgrades names America’s best hospitals for 2019

Healthgrades released its annual list of “America’s Best Hospitals,” using clinical outcomes to identify the top 5% of hospitals nationwide.

In years past, Healthgrades released two separate awards, one of the top 250 hospitals in clinical excellence and the other for the top 50 and 100 hospitals. But this year is the first time the two awards have been consolidated into a single list, HealthLeaders Media reported.

The hospitals are evaluated on their quality for conditions and procedures based on clinical outcomes for the most common hospital procedures and conditions, adjusted for risk factors (e.g., age, gender, and severity of illness), based on more than 45 million Medical claims records for the most recent three-year period available for nearly 4,500 hospitals nationwide.

The hospitals that received a place on the list spanned 42 states, which is significantly higher than last year, when only 27 states made the cut.

To see the complete list for 2019, visit the Healthgrades website. 

Editor’s note: To read HealthLeaders Media’s coverage of this story, click here. To read the full Healthgrades list, click here. To read about last year’s list, click here. To learn about CDI specialists’ role in publicly reported quality data, click here.