McKay-Dee Hospital Center named one of the Nation's 100 Top Hospitals

Northern Utah – February 25, 2012. Intermountain McKay-Dee Hospital Center has been named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals® by Truven Health Analytics formerly the healthcare business of Thomson Reuters. Truven Health Analytics is a leading provider of information and solutions to improve the cost and quality of healthcare.

The Truven Health 100 Top Hospitals® study evaluates performance in 10 areas: mortality; medical complications; patient safety; average patient stay; expenses; profitability; patient satisfaction; adherence to clinical standards of care; post-discharge mortality; and readmission rates for acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), heart failure, and pneumonia. The study is celebrating its 20th year, and has been conducted annually since 1993. This is the third time McKay-Dee Hospital Center has received this recognition, (2010, 2012, and now 2013). This year McKay-Dee Hospital was also recognized as one of 17 hospitals in the country winning the Everest Award, which is given based on outcomes in both the highest current performance and the fastest long-term improvement over five years.

This is a great honor to our volunteer board members and to all of the hard working doctors, nurses, and support staff at McKay-Dee Hospital. While we don’t strive for these kinds of awards, we do strive to offer high quality healthcare at the lowest appropriate cost. We are grateful for this honor to the extent that this confirms we are on the right path to transform healthcare for our community,” said Timothy T. Pehrson, McKay-Dee Hospital’s, Chief Executive Officer.

McKay-Dee Hospital shares this year’s honor with two other Intermountain Healthcare facilities: Logan Regional Hospital in Logan, Utah and Alta View Hospital, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

To conduct the 100 Top Hospitals study, Truven Health researchers evaluated 2,922 short-term, acute care, non-federal hospitals. They used public information — Medicare cost reports, Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR) data, and core measures and patient satisfaction data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare website. Hospitals do not apply, and winners do not pay to market this honor.

The winning hospitals were announced in the February 25 edition of Modern Healthcare magazine.

“The winners of the 100 Top Hospitals award have driven the national benchmarks higher every year for 20 years. This year’s winners have brought even higher value to their local communities - better quality, higher efficiency and high patient perceptions of care, while confronting the challenges of massive industry-wide transformation to implement healthcare reform,“ said Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president at Truven Health Analytics. ”The key to success in a tumultuous environment is visionary leadership that develops and maintains a hospital-wide culture of excellence that cuts across everything, from patient care to housekeeping to administration, and the refusal to rest on laurels when it comes to adopting new technologies and techniques. I congratulate this year’s winners for their persistent drive for excellence.”

If all Medicare inpatients received the same level of care as those treated in the award-winning facilities:

• More than 164,000 additional lives could be saved.
• Approximately 82,000 additional patients could be complication free.
• $6 billion could be saved.
• The average patient stay would decrease by nearly half a day.

If the same standards were applied to all inpatients, the impact would be even greater.

More information on this study and other 100 Top Hospitals research is available at www.100tophospitals.com.

Media Contacts:
Chris Dallin
Intermountain McKay-Dee Hospital Center
801-387-3714
chris.dallin@imail.org

Brian Erni
Truven Health Analytics
+1 631 584 2200
brian@jrodrerick.com
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