PINC AI and Fortune Name the Nation’s 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals - Seite 2

These outcomes add up to meaningful differences. According to the study’s analysis, if all hospitals operated at the level of this year’s top performers, there could be 7,600 fewer deaths due to heart disease, 6,700 fewer bypass and angioplasty patients who suffer complications, and more than $1 billion in inpatient costs could have been saved for the 2024 study year.

This analysis is based on Medicare patients included in this study. If the same standards were applied to all inpatients, the impact could have been even greater.

“Heart disease is one of America’s leading causes of death, resulting in nearly 695,000 deaths and $239 billion in added costs each year,” said Leigh Anderson, Premier’s Chief Operating Officer and leader of PINC AI. “As hospitals work to improve the quality and value of cardiovascular care, unbiased and objective data is vital to enhance patient care as well as financial and operational improvements. The PINC AI 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals program helps set performance standards for hospitals across the country, creating aspirational benchmarks for all to strive to achieve.”

Methodology for the Rankings

The PINC AI 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals program focuses on short-term, acute care, nonfederal U.S. hospitals that treat a broad spectrum of cardiology patients. It includes patients requiring medical management, as well as those who receive invasive or surgical procedures. Because multiple measures are used, a hospital must provide all forms of cardiovascular care, including open heart surgery, to be included in the study. Each patient group is mutually exclusive by design.

Eligible hospitals are ranked for performance across four measurement grouping areas.

HOSPITAL MEASURE DOMAINS:
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) Performance	There are six AMI measures used in the scorecard. Measures include risk-adjusted inpatient mortality, 30-day mortality, 30-day readmissions, severity-adjusted length of stay, wage- and severity-adjusted average cost per case and 30-day episode payment.
Heart failure (HF) Performance	There are six HF measures used in the scorecard. Measures include risk-adjusted inpatient mortality, 30-day mortality, 30-day readmissions, severity-adjusted length of stay, wage- and severity-adjusted average cost per case and 30-day episode payment.