Scott & White ranked among nation's top heart hospitals--
Thomson Reuters’ recognition received for sixth consecutive year --

TEMPLE, Texas – For the sixth year in a row, Scott & White Memorial Hospital has been ranked among the top 100 hospitals by one of the nation’s key health care rating groups. In addition, Scott & White is the only major teaching hospital in Texas as well as the only health care institution in Central Texas to make the prestigious Thomson Reuters Healthcare 100 Top Hospitals Benchmarks list for 2008.

The award recognizes hospitals that have achieved excellence in clinical outcomes, patient safety, patient satisfaction, financial performance, and operational efficiency.

“We are honored to be recognized among the best centers of health care in the nation,” said Alfred B. Knight, president and CEO of Scott & White Healthcare. “Our efforts to provide the highest quality health care, supported by medical education and research are reaping benefits to our patients as well as those helped by our medical research,” he said. “This ranking has placed us in the company of some of the country’s premier medical institutions.”

Other major teaching hospitals included in the Top 100 list include The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN; Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN; and Duke University Hospital.

“The 100 Top Hospitals winners raised the bar again this year, delivering a higher level of reliable care and greater value for their communities,” said Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president for performance improvement and 100 Top Hospitals programs at Thomson Reuters.

If all Medicare inpatients received the same level of care as Medicare patients treated in at Scott & White and the other hospitals on the top 100 list, according to Thomson Reuters:
More than 107,500 additional patients would survive each year. Nearly 132,000 patient complications would be avoided annually. Expenses would decline by $5.9 billion a year.
The average patient stay would decrease by nearly half a day.

Three other Texas hospitals were named in the Thomson Reuters list, and Scott & White was the only Texas-based healthcare institution named for the sixth time in a row in more than a decade. Those other hospitals are:

• Large Community Hospitals: Citizens Medical Center in Victoria and Doctors Hospital at Renaissance in Edinburg
• Small Community Hospitals: Lake Whitney Medical Center, Whitney

The rankings are based on responses from patients at 2,715 hospitals across the U.S. who completed the federal government’s Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and systems (HCAHPS) survey. According to Thomson Reuters, the 2008 100 Top Hospitals have higher survival rates, keep more patients complication-free, and attract more patients — all while maintaining financial stability.

The 2008 winners, lauded by Thomson Reuters for their superior leadership in governance, management and clinical care, awere announced in the March 30 edition of Modern Healthcare magazine.

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