HealthExec February 11, 2020
Healthgrades has released its annual lists of the U.S. hospitals that top its rankings for the current year.
That’s lists, plural, as the company breaks out its data into the 50 best (the nation’s top 1%), 100 best (top 2%) and 250 best (top 5%) at achieving high-quality outcomes for 32 conditions and procedures.
The top 1% represent hospitals that “consistently exhibit exceptional, comprehensive quality care,” according to the company, while the top 2% exhibit “clinical excellence year over year” and the top 5% are showing overall clinical excellence in 2020.
Healthgrades says it arrives at its results after analyzing the performance of close to 4,500 hospitals treating patients for such conditions as heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, respiratory...