Parkland Hospital garners ‘100 Top Hospitals’ award for the third time

by PegNews wire

DALLAS — For the third time, Parkland Health & Hospital System has earned the Thomson 100 Top Hospitals National Benchmarks for Success award. This award is given based on a hospital's benefits to patients as well as the community as a whole.

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Parkland is one of only seven Texas hospitals on the 2007 list, and joins Scott & White Memorial Hospital in Temple as the only Texas hospitals in the "Major Teaching Hospitals" category. Parkland also received the honor in 2001 and 2003.

A 100 Top Hospitals designation means that patients are measurably less likely to have a complication or adverse patient safety incident, are more likely to receive care efficiently at a reasonable comparative cost and that the community can rely on the hospital as a well-managed major employer that will continue to invest in newer technology and services needed by the community.

"The entire Parkland family should be commended for their commitment to high-quality health care," said Dr. Ron Anderson, president and chief executive officer of Parkland. "In particular, the leadership of Chief Financial Officer John Dragovits and Chief Operating Officer John Haupert has been instrumental in Parkland's achievement of this goal. Their contributions to our health care institution have been invaluable."

This annual award names 100 hospitals that achieve the highest national score based on the hospital's combined rank on eight separate measures of hospital performance that affect patients and the community. Only this statistical information is used to select the top performers from more than 3,000 hospitals across the country. The 100 Top Hospitals award winners must perform well across many measures, not just one. In addition, the measures used in the study change almost every year, based on new and higher standards of care. To win, a hospital must keep up with the new standards of performance as well as develop new techniques to achieve better performance.

Source: Parkland Hospital