KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – For the second year in a row, Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo was named as one of the nation’s top performing hospitals by Fortune and IBM Watson Health.
The annual Fortune/IBM 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals study spotlights a select group of US hospitals that are delivering high quality cardiovascular care to a broad spectrum of cardiology patients.
Officials say this is not an award that a hospital can apply for.
Rather, the nation’s 50 top cardiovascular hospitals are determined by a study that evaluates U.S. hospitals using a balanced scorecard of publicly available clinical, operational, and patient satisfaction metrics and data.
This year’s study included 951 U.S. hospitals with cardiovascular service lines.
Compared to similar hospitals, this year’s winning hospitals achieved better results on indicators intended to measure clinical outcomes, operational efficiency, financial performance, and patient experience across four major cardiac conditions.
Those conditions are listed as follows:
- Heart Attack (acute myocardial infarction)
- Heart Surgery (coronary artery bypass graft)
- Cardiac Catheterization (percutaneous coronary intervention)
- Heart Failure
Based on the methodology used by Watson Health, the study concludes that if all United States hospitals’ cardiovascular service lines performed at the level of these study winners, some 6,400 additional lives and roughly $1.4 billion could be saved, and 5,000 additional bypass and angioplasty patients could be complication-free.
“Despite the challenges of COVID-19, the hospitals recognized on the Fortune/IBM Watson Health 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals list are providing quality care in one of the most critical areas,” Ekta Punwani with IBM Watson Health said in a statement. “Hospitals are constantly working to improve clinical and operational performance, and the exceptional organizations on this list demonstrate the standard for top performing cardiac care. Their benchmarks serve as a real-world checkpoint for cardiovascular care across the U.S.”
The annual study is designed to identify impartial, actionable, and attainable benchmarks for hospital and clinical leaders as they work to raise their own organizations’ standards of performance in cardiac care.
The top hospitals for 2022 were announced in Fortune magazine on November 16, 2021. For more information, click here.
For more information on cardiovascular services and providers at Bronson, visit bronsonhealth.com.
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