Magnolia Regional Health Center Named Among the Nation’s Top Performance Improvement Leaders by Thomson Healthcare
Magnolia Regional Health Center was this week, named one of the nation's top performance improvement leader hospitals by Thomson Healthcare, the leading provider of decision support solutions that help organizations across the healthcare industry improve clinical and business performance.
Magnolia Regional Health Center and its senior management team were recognized for being one of a hundred hospitals making the greatest progress in improving hospital-wide performance over five consecutive years (2001-2005). The 2006 Thomson 100 Top Hospitals®: Performance Improvement Leaders have set national benchmarks for the rate and consistency of improvement in clinical outcomes, safety, hospital efficiency, financial stability, and growth. Magnolia Regional Health Center and its medical staff have made major strides in increasing the quality and efficiency of services locally.
Efforts at Magnolia Regional Health Center are part of a broader, national movement to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare spurred by the Institute of Medicine’s 2001 publication of "Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century," a book that that described quality issues and proposed six goals for healthcare delivery.
Partly as a result of this landmark study, a number of organizations began developing programs to improve hospital patient safety, including the 100,000 Lives Campaign by The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and the Quality Alliance.
Findings from the fourth edition of the Thomson 100 Top Hospitals®: Performance Improvement Leaders study appear in the August 6, 2007, issue of Modern Healthcare magazine.
"I am extremely excited for Magnolia Regional Health Center to have been recognized as Thomson 100 Top Hospitals,” said Rick Napper, CEO of Magnolia Regional Health Center. "Our Board of Trustees, medical staff and employees work diligently to deliver the highest quality healthcare to Alcorn and surrounding counties and I’m gratified that they are receiving the recognition they deserve. We have a great team at Magnolia Regional Health Center and I look forward to
continuous growth."
On December 10, 1965, Magnolia Hospital centralized healthcare services in Corinth. What was a consolidation of a 68-bed Community Hospital and a 30-bed Corinth Hospital with 150 employees and 19 physicians and a square footage of 86,000 square feet has now become Magnolia Regional Health Center.
Magnolia Regional Health Center to date is a 164-bed hospital with over 1200 employees, serving as the largest employer in Alcorn County, and over 130 active and courtesy physicians. Once our current expansion is complete, Magnolia Regional Health Center (not including off-site facilities) will be approximately 352,000 square feet.
Magnolia Regional Health Center is growing daily with new patients, new families and new friends! A major accomplishment for Magnolia Regional Health Center will be the opening of our Magnolia Regional Heart Center in November of this year, putting Magnolia one step closer to being the regional health care center of choice.
Proudly, Magnolia Regional Health Center was the only hospital in the state of Mississippi to receive the “Thomson Top 100 Hospitals, Performance Improvement Award”.
"The leadership of the hospital and all of the people who work there have heard the national call to increase the pace of improvement for patients across the nation. Their efforts to improve performance have resulted in consistent year-over-year improvement that is among the fastest rate in the nation for its type of hospital," said Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president, 100 Top Hospitals programs, Center for Healthcare Improvement, Thomson Healthcare. "This means that your local hospital has found the key to continually improving the health services for the people in the community."
The winners of the 2006 Performance Improvement Leaders Award made the following gains between 2001 and 2005:
Went from having more patient deaths, complications, and adverse safety events than expected to having fewer than expected
Increased their expenses by only 6 percent, a rate significantly below cost of living increases. Peer hospitals' expenses, meanwhile, increased 18 percent
Grew their outpatient services more quickly and consistently than their peers.
Rose from being unprofitable to maintaining a healthy positive profit margin of 5.9 percent
Discharged patients almost a day earlier, despite increasing patient acuity
The Thomson 100 Top Hospitals: Performance Improvement Leaders study analyzed acute care
hospitals nationwide using detailed empirical performance data from years 2001 through 2005,
including publicly available Medicare MedPAR data, Medicare cost reports, and Center for Medicare
and Medicaid Services (CMS) outpatient data.
Facilities recognized on the PI Leader list are represented across five hospital classes:
Major Teaching - 15
Teaching - 25
Large Community, 250+ Beds - 20
Medium Community, 100 to 249 Beds - 20
Small Community, 25 to 99 Beds - 20
The study looked at all U.S. hospitals licensed to treat Medicare patients. Eight performance measures were examined at each hospital: risk-adjusted mortality and complications, averagelength of stay, expenses, profitability, cash-to-debt ratio, in patient volume, and riskadjusted patient safety index. The study used publicly available Medicare cost reports, MedPAR data, and CMS outpatient data from 2001 – 2005.
About Thomson Healthcare
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More information on this study and other 100 Top Hospitals research is available at www.100tophospitals.com.
Editors Note: Additional information can be found at www.mrhc.org or at
http://www.100TopHospitals.com under the "Media" tab.
Heather H. Boyd
Magnolia Regional Health Center
(662) 293- 7680
hboyd@mrhc.org
David Wilkins
Thomson Healthcare
(734) 913-3397
david.wilkins@thomson.com
For more information, contact Heather Boyd
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Magnolia Regional Health Center 611 Alcorn Drive, Corinth, MS 38834, (662) 293-1000
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