Catholic Healthcare Systems Excel
According to a Thomson Reuters study conducted for Modern Healthcare, Catholic-owned healthcare systems perform significantly better than investor-owned, for-profit systems.
The study used federally reported core quality measures along with inpatient mortality and complications rates, an inpatient safety index, 30-day mortality and readmission rates, average length of stay, and patients’ perceptions of care. A composite score across all of these measures was computed for 255 systems. The 36 Catholic systems had an average rank of 84 (lower is better), while “other church” systems came in at 121, secular not-for-profit systems scored 129, and investor-owned systems were at 182.
Eleven healthcare systems have won the Baldrige Award and all are not-for-profit. The first healthcare system to receive the Award, SSM, is a large Catholic system with 15 hospitals and two nursing homes in four states.
According to Jean Chenoweth at Thomson Reuters, “health systems owned by the Catholic Church may be the most active in setting and monitoring achievement of quality goals as well as aligning the management of hospitals within a system in achieving what they see as a mission.” That’s a good description of all 11 Baldrige healthcare winners.
You can read more about these winners by clicking on their profiles, which are two-page summaries of their organizations, or their award application summaries, which are their complete responses to the Baldrige Criteria questions:
- AtlantiCare (2009): Profile – Application Summary
- Heartland Health (2009): Profile – Application Summary
- Poudre Valley Health System (2008): Profile – Application Summary
- Mercy Health System (2007): Profile – Application Summary
- Sharp HealthCare (2007): Profile – Application Summary
- North Mississippi Medical Center (2006): Profile – Application Summary
- Bronson Methodist Hospital (2005): Profile – Application Summary
- Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton (2004): Profile – Application Summary
- Baptist Hospital, Inc. (2003): Profile – Application Summary
- Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City (2003): Profile – Application Summary
- SSM Health Care (2002): Application Summary
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