Article: HealthGrades Study: Top Hospitals for Women's Health and Maternity Care Have Significantly Lower Mortality and Morbidity.

Article: Comparing high- and low-performing hospitals using ...
Healthcare Strategic Management;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...High-performing hospitals are more likely to be for ... associated with high- and low-performing hospitals, at which performance was ... self-pay patients. High-performing hospitals also use fewer patient-care ...

Article: Hospital Outcomes for Women Improve, but Some Hospitals ...
Business Wire;  June 27, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... poorest-performing hospitals. --The ... board in women's mortality ... average, women treated at the best-performing hospitals have a 42 ... poorest-performing hospitals," continued ... Collier. "Women must arm ...

Article: Organizational resiliency: how top-performing ...
Journal of Healthcare Management;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... been fully explored is how top-performing hospitals handle setbacks during the improvement ... performance. Understanding how top-performing hospitals recognize and respond to setbacks ... strategies were in place in top-performing hospitals, such as giving emergency medicine ...

Article: Sustaining Excellence in All Aspects of Cardiac Care Rare But ...
PR Newswire;  April 28, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... processes of care differentiate top-performing hospitals ATLANTA, April 28 /PRNewswire ... hospitals studied were ranked as top-performing hospitals, meaning they scored in the top ... study period than the 29 lowest-performing hospitals. Five facilities were ranked in ...

Article: Sustaining Excellence in All Aspects of Cardiac Care Rare but ...
Heart Disease Weekly;  May 17, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... hospitals studied were ranked as top-performing hospitals, meaning they scored in the top ... study period than the 29 lowest-performing hospitals. Five facilities were ranked in ... if patients treated at lower-performing hospitals had been treated at the top-performing ...

Article: Study Shows Strong Link Between Top Performing ...
U.S. Newswire;  July 26, 2004 ;     693 words ... ... significant link exists between top performing hospitals and those that show the greatest ... and dispels the idea that poor performing hospitals are the most likely to show the ... refutes the assumption that poorly performing hospitals are most likely to be advantaged ...

Article: New Research Estimates 1500 Lives Could Be Saved Annually if the ...
Managed Care Weekly Digest;  December 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... mortality rate for women was higher than men ... percent among the highest performing hospitals, or those in Tier ... differential against women, meanwhile, increased ... patients, especially women, would benefit from ... being treated at top performing hospitals. The article also ...