chrisurban.com » healthcare http://chrisurban.com Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:13:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Top Docs Ranking from Philadelphia Magazine http://chrisurban.com/2009/03/30/healthcare/top-docs-ranking-from-philadelphia-magazine-2/ http://chrisurban.com/2009/03/30/healthcare/top-docs-ranking-from-philadelphia-magazine-2/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:29:00 +0000 Chris Urban http://chrisurban.com/?p=149 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 docs at any health care facility, not the total number of employees or physicians on staff.

Rank 

Hospital

Top Docs

1 University of Pennsyvlania HS 122
2 Thomas Jefferson Univ 47
3 Main Line Health 33
4 The Children’s Hospital of Phila 33
5 Fox Chase Cancer Center 26
6 Cooper Univ Hospital 23
7 St. Christopher’s Hospital 13
8 Temple Univ Hospital 12
9 Hahnemahn Univ Hospital 11
10 Albert Einstein Healthcare 10

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Top 10 Hospitals by Number of ‘Top Docs’

Rank 

Hospital

Top Docs

1 Hospital University PA 100
2 Thomas Jefferson Univ 46
3 Childrens Hospital of Phila 37
4 Fox Chase Cancer Center 27
5 Cooper Hospital (NJ) 20
6 Penn Presbyterian 18
7 Pennsylvania 13
8 Main Line Lankenau 12
9 Main Line Bryn Mawr 12
10 Albert Einstein 10

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Peer Group 1, Mortality Rates for Congestive Heart Failure

Rank 

Hospital

Deaths

Rate per
1,000
1 Main Line Lankenau 7 1.06
2 Pennsylvania 4 1.25
3 Hahnemann University 9 1.62
4 Temple University 17 1.62
5 Frankford 15 1.66
6 Hospital University PA 13 2.02
7 Abington Memorial 19 2.22
8 St Luke’s/Bethlehem 20 2.36
9 Thomas Jefferson Univ 17 2.92
10 Reading 21 3.07

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I grouped hospitals by their peer group, isolated the largest hospitals – here are Peer Group 2 hospital rankings, for cases reported of infections per 1,000 patients, in 2006.

Peer Group 2, Lowest Infection Rates

Rank 

Hospital

Cases
Reported

Rate per
1,000
1 Penn Presbyterian 149 11.3
2 Jeanes 135 12.5
3 Sacred Heart/Allentown 79 13.6
4 Main Line Paoli 171 13.7
5 Chester County 216 15.4
6 Main Line Bryn Mawr 256 15.7
7 Easton 203 17.1
8 Doylestown 238 19.5
9 St Joseph/Reading 213 24.9
10 Brandywine 179 25.1

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I grouped hospitals by their peer group, isolated the largest hospitals – here are results from peer group 1. These are ranked by their reported rates of infection, per 1,000 patients.

Peer Group 1, Lowest Infection Rates

Rank 

Hospital

Cases
Reported

Rate per
1,000
1 Main Line Lankenau 218 11.1
2 Pennsylvania 321 14.6
3 St Mary 328 15.9
4 Albert Einstein 459 19
5 Abington Memorial 689 20.2
6 Thomas Jefferson Univ 683 21.4
7 Frankford 647 21.8
8 Lehigh Valley 802 23.3
9 Temple University 659 23.8
10 St Luke’s/Bethlehem 753 24.3

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