Annual list recognizes excellence in clinical outcomes, operational efficiency, patient experience and financial stability
TRACY Calif.—Sutter Tracy Community Hospital today was named to the Fortune/IBM Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals list. This is the second time Sutter Tracy has earned this honor, with its first recognition taking place in 2015. The annual list was unveiled on Fortune.com.
IBM Watson Health has identified the top hospitals from a rigorous evaluation of 3,134 short-term, acute care, non-federal hospitals in the U.S. The annual list recognizes excellence in clinical outcomes, patient safety, patient experience, operational efficiency and financial stability. Truven Health Analytics, now an IBM Watson Health company, first established the list to help identify best practices that may help other healthcare organizations achieve consistent, balanced and sustainable outcomes.
“We work to understand and best serve the diverse needs of our community,” said David M. Thompson, CEO of Sutter Tracy Community Hospital, who has been with the medical center for 30 years. “Patient outcomes and patient experience go hand in hand. Our teams are extremely focused on exceeding the expectations of our patients and families while delivering safe, high-quality care.”
Sutter Tracy Community Hospital is the area’s only full service, acute care hospital, and serves more than 100,000 people in the Tri-Central Valley region. The hospital is part of Sutter Health’s not-for-profit, integrated network, which serves as a more user-friendly system by helping patients achieve healthier outcomes via greater access to quality programs and services at a lower total cost.
In 2016, Truven Health AnalyticsTM, the originator of the 100 Top Hospitals list, named Sutter Health and Sutter’s Valley Area – which includes Sutter Tracy – two of the nation’s top five performers among large healthcare systems. Other recent recognitions for Sutter Tracy include an Elite Plus Honor Roll award for stroke care in 2019 by the American Stroke Association and an “LGBTQ Health Care Equality Leader” in 2019 by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
The Fortune/IBM Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals recognition demonstrates Sutter Tracy Community Hospital’s ongoing commitment to prioritize patient-centered care, particularly during this very challenging and unprecedented time. According to IBM Watson Health, as compared to similar hospitals, the hospitals included on the Fortune/IBM Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals list had better results on key clinical and operational performance indicators. These include survival rates, patient complications, healthcare-associated infections, 30-day mortality and 30-day hospital-wide readmission rates, length of stay, throughput in emergency rooms and ratings from patients.
“Hospitals, health systems and the dedicated clinicians and staff who work at these organizations have emerged as true heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic, and we are grateful to be able to recognize these extraordinary leaders at this time,” said Kyu Rhee, M.D., MPP, vice president and chief health officer, IBM Watson Health. “From small community hospitals to major teaching hospitals, organizations on this list demonstrate a relentless commitment to high value, patient-centered care and innovation. It is clear that the COVID-19 crisis will be a catalyst for reinvention, and we believe these top-performing hospitals are positioned to emerge stronger and smarter out of this crisis.”
For more information, visit http://www.100tophospitals.com/.
