We took the just-released list of Top Docs published by Philadelphia magazine and regrouped the hospitals into health systems, and ranked the totals. Remember, this is fairly arbitrary – the number of top docs is not necessarily indicative of the quality of care one can expect – and it only reflects the number of top [...]
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Top Docs Ranking, from Philadelphia Magazine
May 19th, 2008 · No Comments · healthcare
So Philadelphia magazine releases a list every year of Top Docs, but these are usually grouped by specialty only. In keeping with our lists for Philadelphia-area hospitals, here are the top 10 hospitals by number of Top Docs mentioned in the May 2008 issue. Keep in mind several things: this is a completely arbitrary list [...]
2006 Mortality Rates, Congestive Heart Failure
May 16th, 2008 · No Comments · healthcare
In our continuing series where we look at the rates of infection and mortality reported by Philadelphia area hospitals, here we filter out the hospitals with the lowest mortality rates for cases reported as Congestive Heart Failure. What is interesting to note is the low actual number of cases, consider the rates are reported as [...]
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2006 Infection Rates Ranking
May 10th, 2008 · No Comments · healthcare
In an objective attempt to qualify which hospitals are ‘better’ or ‘worse’ in the Philadelphia area, I’ve been poring over some interesting data provided by the Pennsylvania Healthcare Cost Containment Council (www.phc4.org). From this organization, we can see total cases reported for infections among patients. I grouped hospitals by their peer group, isolated the largest [...]
Tags: hospitals·infection·pennsylvania·philadelphia·ranking·rates
2006 Infection Rates Ranking
May 10th, 2008 · No Comments · healthcare
In an objective attempt to qualify which hospitals are ‘better’ or ‘worse’ in the Philadelphia area, I’ve been poring over some interesting data provided by the Pennsylvania Healthcare Cost Containment Council (www.phc4.org). From this organization, we can see total cases reported for infections among patients. I grouped hospitals by their peer group, isolated the largest [...]
Tags: hospitals·infection·pennsylvania·philadelphia·ranking·rates