MMC Named One of Nation's Top 100 Hospitals
MINDEN, LOUISIANA - March 30, 2010. Minden Medical Center was named one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals® this week by Thomson Reuters, a leading provider of information and solutions to improve the cost and quality of healthcare.
This hospital award signifies achieved excellence in clinical outcomes, patient safety, patient satisfaction, financial performance, and operational efficiency. This is the second time in six years Minden Medical Center had been recognized with this honor."Recognition of this magnitude and rarity could never be accomplished without the loyalty, support, unselfish teamwork and passion for excellence exhibited by each member of our hospital and medical staff, our Board of Governors and our LifePoint® corporate family," states George E. French III, CEO of Minden Medical Center.
"In our mission statement...We aspire to be the finest hospital in the country.. this award is one of the key quality indicators we'd set to reflect achievement of that goal at Minden Medical Center: selection as one of the 100 Top Hospitals in the nation. Twice in six years is just icing on the cake."
"How did we do it? We have excellent employees and physicians and in 2009 were ranked #1 across the board based upon our percentile performance in five different areas of constituency satisfaction - IP, OP, ER, Employee and Physician. We provide excellent quality as measured by Core Measure performance in four specialized services which are all at 100% and place us #1 in LifePoint® and extremely high nationally. Highly satisfied physicians and hospital staff are the driving force behind our clinical excellence. To set the benchmark for thousands of hospitals is an honor. Our selection, again, as a member of the 100 Top Hospitals is a result of consistent, enthusiastic and a focused penchant on the part of employees and physicians to simply be the best hospital in the country."
Dr. Carl Hines, physician at MMC for 31 years said, "I am proud that our hospital was selected among the 100 Top Hospitals in the Nation. The recent announcement in Modern Healthcare by Thomson Reuters is public confirmation of what I have always known."
Newly recruited family physician, Dr. Martha Wafer says, "For the short time that I have been affiliated with Minden Medical Center it has truly lived up to being a top hospital and I am so proud to work here. I am planning to use this announcement to promote to my patients and community."
Dr. Phillip Rozeman, Cardiologist, states "Modern Healthcare's issue announcing Thompson Reuter's 100 Top Hospitals measured the most important clinical and financial criteria to measure all hospitals across the nation. MMC is in the top 100 of the thousands of hospitals in our country.
This kind of hospital performance is the results of excellence at every level from housekeeping to nurses, physicians and administration. It is almost expected when hospitals are among the tops in the nation in employee, physician and patient satisfaction like MMC.
I enjoy working at MMC where everyone is moving in the same direction to deliver excellent care to the people of Minden and surrounding communities. People care about helping their neighbors."
About Minden Medical Center
Originally established in 1926, Minden Medical Center is a 161-bed acute care hospital that serves over 70,000 people in the southern portion of Webster Parish and surrounding communities. Accredited by The Joint Commission, the hospital offers a wide range of services including orthopedics, OB/gynecology, cardiology, 24-hour emergency services, medical/surgical services, pediatrics, home health, pain management, occupational medicine, gero/psych and a full range of rehab services. Minden Medical Center offers patients both the sophisticated technology and the compassionate personal attention and caring that are part of being a community-based hospital.
The winners were identified through an in-depth analysis, the Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals®: National Benchmarks study. The study evaluated 3,000 short-term, acute care, non-federal hospitals in nine areas: mortality, medical complications, patient safety, average length of stay, expenses, profitability, cash-to-debt ratio, patient satisfaction, and adherence to clinical standards of care.
The winning hospitals were announced in the March 30 edition of Modern Healthcare magazine.
"The 100 Top Hospitals winners raised the bar again this year, delivering a higher level of reliable care and greater value for their communities," said Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president for performance improvement and 100 Top Hospitals programs at Thomson Reuters.
If all Medicare inpatients received the same level of care as Medicare patients treated in the winning hospitals:
- More than 107,500 additional patients would survive each year.
- Nearly 132,000 patient complications would be avoided annually.
- Expenses would decline by $5.9 billion a year.
- The average patient stay would decrease by nearly half a day.
More information on this study and other 100 Top Hospitals research is available at www.100tophospitals.com.
