Premier’s PINC AI and Fortune Name the Nation’s 100 Top Hospitals - Seite 3

Methodology for Selecting Special Designations within the 100 Top Hospital List

The methodology for Everest Award winner selections can be summarized in three main steps:

• Identify the annual 100 Top Hospitals benchmark hospitals using a balanced scorecard of performance measures from the most current data period available (2022 at the time of this study).
• Using our five-year (2018-2022) trending methodology to select the 100 hospitals that have shown the fastest, most consistent improvement rates on the same balanced scorecard of performance measures.
• Identifying those hospitals that ranked in the top 100 on both lists.

The methodology for selecting the Community Champion Designation recipients can be summarized in three main steps:

• Identify the annual 100 Top Hospitals benchmark hospitals using a balanced scorecard of performance measures from the most current data period available (2022 at the time of this study).
• Calculate a hospital-level Social Drivers of Health (SDOH) index based on a wide range of social factors generally associated with adverse outcomes and higher cost of care. This index is comprised of dual eligibility, low-income subsidy, disability, and end-stage renal failure status with Medicare and Medicaid, urban rural status, and ICD-10 coding indicating the presence of behavioral health and SDOH factors. Mean SDOH indices are calculated for each in-study facility. All research was based on public data sets, including CMS data.
• 100 Top Hospital benchmark hospitals with a mean SDOH index in the top quintile of highest risk patients are presented with the Community Champion Designation.

Combining these methodologies yields a select group of Everest Award and Community Champion Designation recipients. The number of top performers will vary every year, based solely on performance.

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About the PINC AI Platform

PINC AI is the technology and services platform of Premier, Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC). With more than 20 years’ worth of cost, quality and operational data gleaned from 45 percent of U.S. hospital discharges, 2.7 billion hospital outpatient and clinic encounters and 177 million physician office visits, the PINC AI platform provides actionable intelligence to help improve outcomes, support improved financial performance and enable success in new, alternative payment models. PINC AI incorporates the 100 Top Hospitals Program that inspires hospital and health system leaders to pursue higher performance and deliver added value to their patients and communities. PINC AI offerings rely on advanced analytics to identify improvement opportunities; support award-winning Strategic Collaboratives for value-based care, maternal and infant health, workforce innovation, and health equity; and consulting services for clinical and operational design, and workflow solutions to hardwire sustainable change. The PINC AI platform is also the data engine powering Premier’s newest brands – Remitra and Contigo Health. With a leading network of provider organizations, the PINC AI platform accelerates ingenuity and serves as a large-scale innovation catalyst in healthcare. PINC AI offerings and capabilities can be followed on X and LinkedIn.