What Makes A Top 100 Hospitals?

What Makes a Top 100 Hospitals?

Introduction

The study of Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals evaluates the performances of hospitals in these ten areas that are: medical complications, mortality, average patient stay, patient safety, profitability; expenses; adherence to clinical standards of care; patient satisfaction; readmission rates for acute myocardial infarction (heart attack); pneumonia and heart failure as well as post-discharge mortality. The study of Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals has been conducted since 1993 each year (Thomson Reuters, 2012).

In my opinion, Johns Hopkins Hospital is among the 100 hospitals, because along with the hospital it is also a teaching facility (Johns Hopkins Medicine) as well as a medical research facility. Johns Hopkins offers several excellent services to the patients that include outpatient sites and community hospitals. They also provide services to the international and out of state patients.

Johns Hopkins is renowned internationally not because of their teaching facilities only but also because of their services in the field of research regarding Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome and cancer (Johns Hopkins Hospitals). They have a department or centre for every healthcare that is needed by the patients. The organization and structure of their facility also makes them unique and worth noticing. They provide the full information regarding treatment, about the services that are being offered by their center as well as the history of that particular center.

The best point that attract the foreign patients towards Johns Hopkins Hospital is that they have a team that understand and are fluent in more than twenty plus languages. Their teams also tailor the religious, cultural and special needs of the patients if required. They are affiliated with not only North America but Asia, Europe, Middle East and Latin American. For out of state patients they offer services like, helping in finding out the ...