Those with Austin medical jobs at the Heart Hospital of Austin recently received some recognition.
Thomson Reuters named the hospital to its list of the top 30 community hospitals in the country. Heart Hospital, which opened in 1998, was designed by cardiologists and surgeons. Today the facility provides cardiovascular services to local residents of Central Texas and patients from across the country.
The top 30 community hospitals list was part of Thomson Reuters' study, "100 Top Hospitals: Cardiovascular Benchmarks," which also includes lists for the top 30 teaching hospitals with cardiovascular residency programs and the top 40 teaching hospitals without cardiovascular residency programs.
The 11th annual study examined the performance of 971 hospitals by analyzing outcomes for patients diagnosed with heart failure and heart attacks, as well as those who received coronary bypass surgery or percutaneous cardiovascular interventions.
Hospitals were scored in key performance areas, including risk-adjusted medical mortality, risk-adjusted surgical mortality, risk-adjusted complications, core measures, percentage of coronary bypass patients with internal mammary artery use, procedure volume, severity-adjusted average length of stay and wage-adjusted and severity-adjusted average cost.
The top 100 hospitals perform 50 percent more cardiac surgeries than other hospitals in the same categories. The study found that as a whole the hospitals have:
- 17 percent lower mortality rates for heart attack patients
- 10 percent lower mortality rates for heart failure patients
- 27 percent lower mortality for bypass surgery patients
- 22 percent lower mortality following PCI
- Fewer post-operative complications, with 99 percent of patients remaining free of complications
- Close to 12 percent shorter average hospital stay
- 12 percent lower cost per case
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