Premier’s PINC AI and Fortune Name the Nation’s 100 Top Hospitals - Seite 2

Special Designations

Several hospitals on the 100 Top Hospitals list also received special designations of having either the highest rate of improvement or delivering outstanding care in communities that serve a higher proportion of patients with significant social needs.

Everest Award

There were 26 facilities that received the Everest Award for setting national benchmarks for both the fastest rate of improvement and highest current year performance on the 100 Top Hospitals balanced scorecard. This award recognizes the boards, executives and medical staff leaders who developed and executed the strategies that helped drive the highest rates of improvement, resulting in the highest performance in the U.S. at the end of five years.

“We’re very proud of the hospitals that achieved the Everest Award designation,” said Anderson. “It’s truly a testament to their focus on improvement in quality, patient and clinician experiences, and financial and operational efficiency.”

Community Champion Designation

New this year to the 100 Top Hospitals program is the Community Champion Designation. This is a separate study and selective distinction for those hospitals that have achieved 100 Top Hospitals status and are delivering outstanding care in communities that serve a higher proportion of patients with significant social needs relative to the entire in-study population. In 2024, the Community Champion Designation honors six organizations that achieved this level of distinction.

Rankings Methodology

The PINC AI 100 Top Hospitals program focuses on short-term, acute care, non-federal U.S. hospitals that treat a broad spectrum of patients. Researchers evaluated 2,601 short-term, acute care, non-federal U.S. hospitals and health systems. All research was based on the following public data sets: Medicare cost reports, Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MEDPAR) data, and data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Care Compare website. For complete methodology details, please review the study here.

Eligible hospitals are ranked for performance across 10 measures within five domains.

Final rank is determined based on performance for all individual measures. To allow for fair comparison, hospitals are stratified and then ranked within five separate peer groups with a pre-determined number of high-performing hospitals: major teaching hospitals (15 facilities), teaching hospitals (25 facilities), large community hospitals (20 facilities), medium community hospitals (20 facilities), and small community hospitals (20 facilities).