Affinity Health System named one of the nation’s top 50 health systems
08 / 21 / 2009
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Maria Nelson, Media Relations
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MENASHA, Wis. - Affinity Health System has been named one of the nation’s top 50 health systems based on clinical performance according to Thomson Reuters, a leading provider of information and solutions to improve the cost and quality of health care.
Thomson Reuters’ 100 Top Hospitals: Health Systems Quality/Efficiency Study evaluated 252 health systems on measures of clinical quality and efficiency. The study was released exclusively to Modern Healthcare and the top 50 represent the top 20 percent of the systems studied.
The Thomson Reuters study assessed all U.S. health systems with two or more short-term, general, non-federal hospitals. Researchers looked at five metrics that gauge clinical quality and efficiency: mortality, medical complications, patient safety, average length of stay and adherence to clinical standards of care based on core measures published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
“Affinity is proud to join a select group of prestigious health care systems in the top quintile of health care systems,” said Dan Neufelder, CEO. “We are continuously striving to make measurable improvements in our quality and efficiency thorough intensive monitoring, evaluating and connecting of specific metric in our hospitals. Achieving this accolade highlights our promise to deliver personalized care.”
According to Thomson Reuters, the study sets national benchmarks for quality and efficiency and extends transparency regarding the performance of health care organizations from hospitals to health systems of health care systems’ and hospitals’ performance.
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For the Editor:
Affinity Health System, a faith-based regional health care network, is the Fox Valley’s second-largest employer, according to the Fox Cities Chamber of Commerce & Industry. For the fourth consecutive year, Affinity has been named one of the nation’s top 64 health systems based on clinical performance according to Thomson Reuters, a leading provider of information and solutions to improve the cost and quality of health care. For ten consecutive years, Affinity Health System has been named to the SDI (formerly Verispan) Integrated Health Network Top 100, an annual assessment of the 100 most highly integrated health care networks in the nation. Both St. Elizabeth Hospital in Appleton and Mercy Medical Center in Oshkosh rank among the top 1 percent of hospitals nationwide in terms of quality and efficiency, as determined by the 2007 Premier | CareScience Select practice National Quality Award. Members of Affinity include Mercy Medical Center and Mercy Health Foundation, Oshkosh; St. Elizabeth Hospital and the St. Elizabeth Hospital Foundation, Appleton; Affinity Medical Group, a regional network of 25 family practice and specialty clinics – 22 of which are recognized as NCQA Level III medical homes, the highest level of recognition – in 14 communities; Calumet Medical Center, Chilton; and Affinity Occupational Health.