Rockford Memorial Hospital, an entity of Rockford Health System, was named one of the nation's performance improvement leaders by Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals.
Rockford Memorial Hospital and its senior management team were recognized for being one of a hundred hospitals making the greatest progress in improving hospital-wide performance over five consecutive years (2002-2006). The 2007 Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals®: Performance Improvement Leaders have set national benchmarks for the rate and consistency of improvement in clinical outcomes, safety, hospital efficiency, and financial stability. Rockford Memorial Hospital and its medical staff have made major strides in increasing the quality and efficiency of services locally.
Findings from the fifth edition of the Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals®: Performance Improvement Leaders study appears in the August 11, 2008, issue of Modern Healthcare magazine.
The Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals: Performance Improvement Leaders study analyzed acute care hospitals nationwide using detailed empirical performance data from years 2002 through 2006, including publicly available Medicare MedPAR data, Medicare cost reports, and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) outpatient data.
The study rated hospitals on eight factors — patient mortality, medical complications, patient safety, length of stay, expenses, profitability, cash-to-debt ratio, and use of evidence-based medicine. Researchers evaluated 2,867 short-term, acute care, non-federal hospitals grouped into five categories: major teaching hospitals, other teaching hospitals, large community hospitals, medium-sized community hospitals, and small community hospitals.
“This award is yet another indication that our passion for safe and superior health care is strong at all levels of our organization,” said Gary Kaatz, President and CEO of Rockford Health System. “ From the Board of Directors to the caregivers at the bedside, we are living our mission, 'superior care, everyday, for all our patients.'”
Rockford Memorial Hospital is a 396-bed hospital. Among the services at the hospital are: A Level I (highest level) Trauma Center with REACT Helicopter; The Regional Perinatal Center, which includes the region’s only Maternal-Fetal Medicine Program and inpatient High-Risk Maternity Unit; The area’s only Level III (highest level) Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; The region’s only Pediatric Intensive Care Unit; The area’s leading surgical program; and the Brain and Spine Center, the first and only comprehensive neurosciences program in the Rock River Valley.