San Antonio Community Hospital ranked top 100 in nation
San Antonio Community Hospital has achieved a spot in the Thomson Reuters top 100 hospitals study.
The hospital was one of four hospitals in California to be included in the top 100 and is the only in San Bernardino County.
This is the first recognition of it's kind since the hospital opened in 1907.
"It's a tremendous acknowledgment of all the work and efforts that all of the people at this organization have put in over the last four or five years," said Steven Moreau, president and CEO of San Antonio Community Hospital. "The hospital works together to continuously improve and the results are evident now.
The hospital administration did not know San Antonio Community Hospital was being evaluated in the study until the rankings were completed, Moreau said.
"It means a lot to be recognized by an external organization that look at objective data," he said. "At the end of the year they decided who were the higher performers in the county and we happen to be in the top 100. We're proud of that."
The Thomson Reuters study evaluated performance in nine areas: mortality, medical complications, patient safety, average length of stay, expenses, profitability, cash-to-debt ratio, patient satisfaction and adherence to clinical standards of care.
"I believe this is the most prestigious and most objective reward," Moreau said. "It's not based on perception, not based on peoples thought process. This is a fundamental statistical review of results for all the hospitals across the country. I think it's the most valid and most valued one."
Within the top 100, hospitals were broken down into five categories: major teaching hospitals, teaching hospitals, large community hospitals, medium community hospitals and small community hospitals.
San Antonio Community is considered a large community hospital and was the only California hospital in the category.
According to the study results, if all Medicare inpatients received the same level of care as patients treated in the top 100 hospitals: more than 107,500 additional patients would survive each year, nearly 132,000 patient complications would be avoided annually, expenses would decline by $5.9 billion a year and the average patient stay would decrease by nearly half a day.
San Antonio Community Hospital was also named one of the top 23 hospitals nationwide to receive the first ever Everest Award for National Benchmarks - an award for hospitals that set national benchmarks for the fastest five-year rate of improvement.
"All of those were at benchmark levels," Moreau said. "That says a lot about where we were and where we are."
Teamwork among the administration, nursing staff, physicians and hospitals employees led to the hospital receiving both awards, said Dr. Victor Ching, President of the Medical Staff at San Antonio Community Hospital.
"I think it's just a continuous pursuit of excellence and I think that's where we want to be," Ching said. "It shows a real leadership at the top. It filters down through everything that's done."
Ching has been a physician with the hospital since 1982 and has seen the the hospital's growth over the years.
"I think all along it's always been about the patient care, patient safety and what is good for the patient," Ching said. "But now there is a lot of differences as far as documentation and roving that our patients do get the best care."
West Anaheim Medical Center in Anaheim, St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff and Desert Valley Hospital in Victorville were the other three California hospitals in the top 100.
For the complete list of winners click here.
For the complete list of Everest Award winners click here.
The hospital was one of four hospitals in California to be included in the top 100 and is the only in San Bernardino County.
This is the first recognition of it's kind since the hospital opened in 1907.
"It's a tremendous acknowledgment of all the work and efforts that all of the people at this organization have put in over the last four or five years," said Steven Moreau, president and CEO of San Antonio Community Hospital. "The hospital works together to continuously improve and the results are evident now.
The hospital administration did not know San Antonio Community Hospital was being evaluated in the study until the rankings were completed, Moreau said.
"It means a lot to be recognized by an external organization that look at objective data," he said. "At the end of the year they decided who were the higher performers in the county and we happen to be in the top 100. We're proud of that."
The Thomson Reuters study evaluated performance in nine areas: mortality, medical complications, patient safety, average length of stay, expenses, profitability, cash-to-debt ratio, patient satisfaction and adherence to clinical standards of care.
"I believe this is the most prestigious and most objective reward," Moreau said. "It's not based on perception, not based on peoples thought process. This is a fundamental statistical review of results for all the hospitals across the country. I think it's the most valid and most valued one."
Within the top 100, hospitals were broken down into five categories: major teaching hospitals, teaching hospitals, large community hospitals, medium community hospitals and small community hospitals.
San Antonio Community is considered a large community hospital and was the only California hospital in the category.
According to the study results, if all Medicare inpatients received the same level of care as patients treated in the top 100 hospitals: more than 107,500 additional patients would survive each year, nearly 132,000 patient complications would be avoided annually, expenses would decline by $5.9 billion a year and the average patient stay would decrease by nearly half a day.
San Antonio Community Hospital was also named one of the top 23 hospitals nationwide to receive the first ever Everest Award for National Benchmarks - an award for hospitals that set national benchmarks for the fastest five-year rate of improvement.
"All of those were at benchmark levels," Moreau said. "That says a lot about where we were and where we are."
Teamwork among the administration, nursing staff, physicians and hospitals employees led to the hospital receiving both awards, said Dr. Victor Ching, President of the Medical Staff at San Antonio Community Hospital.
"I think it's just a continuous pursuit of excellence and I think that's where we want to be," Ching said. "It shows a real leadership at the top. It filters down through everything that's done."
Ching has been a physician with the hospital since 1982 and has seen the the hospital's growth over the years.
"I think all along it's always been about the patient care, patient safety and what is good for the patient," Ching said. "But now there is a lot of differences as far as documentation and roving that our patients do get the best care."
West Anaheim Medical Center in Anaheim, St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff and Desert Valley Hospital in Victorville were the other three California hospitals in the top 100.
For the complete list of winners click here.
For the complete list of Everest Award winners click here.
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