20 winners are in the South Atlantic Coast VA to FL.
11 are in OK-TX-LA.
17 are in the Mountain States.
5 are in WA-OR-CA. 1 is in MA.
94% are in fly-over-country.
6% are in Progressive land.
How does this disparity impact people's views of healthcare? Obamacare fans have the worst hospitals.
And why do the Blue coasts have the worst hospitals?
Because they have made the most “progress” in health care.
I counted two in California.
That list is laughable. Mass General, Dana-Farber, Beth Israel, Children’s Hospital in Boston are always among tthe top 10 but didn’t even make this top 100.
Thanks. You can have Podunk community medical center. I'll keep my choice of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, or Temple University Hospital, depending on what goes wrong.
I am employed by one of the major teaching hospitals on the list. These statistics are very illuminating:
Many reasons for the disparity: An emphasis on compassionate care, a willingness to invest in innovation rather than keeping old equipment running, strong community involvement and media relations, a tenacious work ethic not found in some areas of the country and, most importantly, careful monitoring of the payor mix so as to not incur too many losses from Medicaid and other governmentally “funded” providers.
Hospitals that admit frequent fliers with no verifiable means of payment on charges incurred are doing themselves and the neighboring community a disservice. Healthcare is a business and hospitals must be run like a corporation in order to thrive. I don’t personally believe in turning away the indigent for emergency care but I also do not subscribe to the Medicaid Hostel mindset either.
Sick patients and the ones who are going to be hospitalized forever get transferred to the urban, busy, high-trauma, poor, etc., hospitals tout de suite.
So I am not particularly impressed by this poll, its methodology, etc.
To pretend that better management of the hospitals nationwide would result in all the savings, efficiency, etc., mentioned, is just pure bull.
The way to run a hospital and get it included in the top 100 is easy: Only take in rich people who are socially connected, employed, responsible, etc.,
Turf away any undesirables like chronically ill, poor, people with genetic diseases, people with neurologic injury needing complex care, burn patients, immigrants with their own imported diseases and primitive health care practices, etc.
You will have great numbers.
But make no mistake, those turfed patients will just show up at another hospital. Oftentimes the hospital receiving them will have incredible experience to bear and will have a good record saving difficult and severely ill patients.
I had my tonsils taken out at Baptist Medical in Jax at age 10. :-)
This top 100 list is absurd. Just about every one of the best hospitals in California is not listed. One listed is Scripps Hospital in La Jolla. However, there are two Scripps hospitals in La Jolla, and the best one, the one on just about every other best hospital list, is Scripps Green Hospital.
As to Chino Valley Medical Center in Chino, it is virtually unknown.
Err, great charting versus actual great care?
Because they give the most welfare, and have the largest cities; therefore they have the most emergency room horror cases of the chronically ill poor or shootings, whose cases drag down all averages.
St. Francis Downtown – Greenville, SC