Mediocre Hospital Outcomes Report
Analyzing The Puzzle of Poor U.S. Hospital Care With Recommendations
Consider the following:
- 1 of 3 (30%) patients are readmitted within 30 days of hospital discharges;
- 1 of 20 patients contract an infection while hospitalized;
- Of the 1.7 million adult sepsis cases annually, there are 270,000 deaths;
- Medication-related reactions account for up to 106,000 deaths annually;
- Preventable hospital deaths from medical errors range 250,000 - 440,000.
The 2022 report from The SafeCare Group was designed to assess the largest U.S. hospital systems performance in relevant outcomes metrics. A comparison analysis of various hospital systems was performed for the report. Hospital systems were compared based on similar number of hospitals within the corporate network, and matched up in five outcomes categories - timeliness, infections, complications, readmissions, and deaths). There were significant conclusions drawn from the findings in the report.
What is needed to improve U.S. outcomes are urgent reforms with teeth and more precise alignment of Medicare financial incentives. These reforms should address:
- Lack of hospital systems executive accountability;
- Ineffective CMS pay-for-performance programs;
- Unpoliced GPO anticompetitive business practices;
- Overabundance of defensive medicine:
- Obsolete hospital accreditation methods.
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Performance of several of the largest for-profit hospital systems were analyzed for this report. The following systems were included in the analysis:
- Ardent Health Services;
- Community Health Systems;
- HCA Healthcare;
- LifePoint Health;
- Prime Healthcare Services;
- Steward Health Care System;
- Tenet Healthcare Corporation;
- Universal Health Services
Performance of several of the largest non-profit hospital systems were analyzed for this report. The following systems were included in the analysis:
- Advent Health/Adventist Health;
- Atrium Health;
- Ascension Health;
- Banner Health;
- CommonSpirit Health;
- Providence Saint Joseph Health;
- Trinity Health;
- UPMC
The following systems were also included in the analysis:
- Advocate Aurora Health;
- Avera Health;
- Ballad Health;
- Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation;
- Baylor Scott and White Health;
- Bon Secours Mercy Health;
- Christus Health;
- Cleveland Clinic Health System;
- Hospital Sisters Health System;
- Intermountain Healthcare;
- Mayo Clinic;
- Mercy Health;
- New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation;
- Northwell Health;
- Novant Health;
- Sanford Health;
- SSM Health;
- Sutter Health;
- Texas Health Resources;
- UnityPoint Health.
