East Liverpool City Hospital demonstrated lower inpatient mortality rates, with fewer readmissions and complications.
East Liverpool, OH – May 1, 2024 – East Liverpool City Hospital, member of Prime Healthcare Foundation, once again ranks as one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals® according to an independent quality analysis provided by PINC AI™, the technology and services brand of Premier, Inc., and reported by Fortune.
East Liverpool City Hospital has earned the “100 Top Hospitals” for the seventh consecutive year (2018-2024). This achievement, along with East Liverpool City Hospitals accomplishments as a Leapfrog safety grade of “A” from 2018 to 2024 and being the only hospital in the region to receive the Grade A award reflects East Liverpool City Hospital’s commitment to delivering safe, high-quality care. They also received the Patient Safety Excellence Award for the seventh time (2018-2024) and being among the top 5% in the nation. In August, East Liverpool City Hospital was awarded the only five-star hospital award, from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in the Ohio Valley, consisting of Columbiana, Jefferson, Harrison, and Belmont County in Ohio and Marshall, Brooke, Hancock, and Ohio County in West Virginia.
“Hospitals and health systems continue to recognize the vital importance of performance. improvement for high-quality patient care, proving value and enabling the innovations that drive healthcare forward,” said Leigh Anderson, Premier’s Chief Operating Officer and the leader of PINC AI™. “The transparent, non-biased and actionable data this study provides helps leaders make informed decisions for change and proves that East Liverpool City Hospital excels across a range of core performance indicators, which can directly lead to significantly higher quality patient outcomes, with fewer readmissions and complications.”
Interim President and CEO of East Liverpool City Hospital, Stephanie Conn states, “We are honored to receive this prestigious award once again for the seventh time. East Liverpool City Hospital has cultivated an outstanding culture that prioritizes the well-being of patients and staff, setting a high standard for exceptional patient safety. The 100 Top Hospital award demonstrates the utmost level of commitment from our diligent team who focus on providing the safest, highest quality of health care.”
To create the list, an objective, quantitative analysis of publicly available data was conducted to identify the top hospitals in the United States. The primary purpose of the PINC AI™ 100 Top Hospitals® program is to inspire hospital and health system leaders to pursue higher performance and deliver added value to patients and communities. Organizations do not apply to participate in the study, and award recipients do not pay to market their honor.
100 Top Hospitals® Program Performance
This year, based on comparisons between the study’s top performers and a peer group of similar hospitals, the analysis found that the top performers of the 100 Top Hospitals® program delivered better outcomes while operating more efficiently and at a lower cost. Compared to peer hospitals, this year’s top performers had:
- 39 percent fewer inpatient deaths than peer hospitals.
- 6 percent fewer patients with complications.
- 6 percent fewer healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
- A 21.1 percent lower inpatient expense per discharge.
- 5-day shorter average length of stay.
- Better reported patient experience scores, with a top-box Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) score of 73 percent versus 67 percent for peer hospitals.
The PINC AI program focuses on short-term, acute care, non-federal U.S. hospitals that treat a broad spectrum of patients. All research was based on the following public data sets: Medicare cost reports, Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MEDPAR) data, and data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Care Compare website. For more information, view details of the study here.
Eligible hospitals are ranked for performance across 10 measures within five domains. Final rank is determined based on performance for all individual measures.
About East Liverpool City Hospital and its affiliates:
East Liverpool City Hospital (ELCH) is a 130 bed, acute care hospital located in the tri-state region of Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. ELCH’s affiliates include River Valley Physicians (Medical Group), East Liverpool Therapy Center, Ohio Valley Home Health Services, East Liverpool City Hospital Wellsville Clinic, and East Liverpool City Hospital East Palestine Clinic. East Liverpool City Hospital and its affiliates serve a population of more than 115,000 throughout its service area. For more information, please visit www.elch.org or follow us on our social media sites (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn)