Venice Regional Medical Center Named One of the Nation’s 100 Top Hospitals by Thomson Reuters
Venice, Fl – March 29, 2010…Venice Regional Medical Center has been named
one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals® by Thomson Reuters, a
leading provider of information and solutions to improve the cost and quality
of healthcare.
The award recognizes hospitals
that have achieved excellence in clinical outcomes, patient safety, patient
satisfaction, financial performance, and operational efficiency. This is the
first
time Venice Regional Medical Center has been recognized with
this honor.
“When I joined Venice Regional Medical Center in January it was very clear
to me that there was something special about this hospital,” said Peter
Wozniak, Chief Executive Officer. “The
entire staff is engaged and committed to doing the very best for not only the
patient but for their co-workers as well.”
Venice Regional Medical Center is a 312-bed, state of the art hospital with
a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services. Specialized services include a comprehensive
cardiac program that has been recognized for four consecutive years as a 100 Top
Cardiovascular program nationally by the healthcare rating firm Thomson Reuters. To join the medical Staff at Venice Regional
Medical Center
physicians are required to be board certified or board eligible.
The winners were identified through an in-depth analysis, the Thomson
Reuters 100 Top Hospitals®: National Benchmarks study. The study evaluated
3,000 short-term, acute care, non-federal hospitals in nine areas: mortality,
medical complications, patient safety, average length of stay, expenses,
profitability, cash-to-debt ratio, patient satisfaction, and adherence to
clinical standards of care.
The winning hospitals were
announced in the March 30 edition of Modern Healthcare magazine.
“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 the winning
hospitals:
- 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.
About Thomson Reuters: Thomson Reuters, a global
healthcare information company, performs the study annually at its own expense
to share the new standards being set by the hospital industry, enabling other
hospitals to improve their own hospital-wide performance. By using only high-quality public data, we
are able to measure all hospitals and report the most reliable standards. Only 100 hospitals, selected from five
categories (Major Teaching, Teaching, and Large, Medium, and Small Community
Hospital), are named.
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More information on this study
and other 100 Top Hospitals research is available at www.100tophospitals.com.
For additional
information, contact: Kathy Turner @ 941-486-6935