chrisurban.com » healthcare http://chrisurban.com Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:09:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 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 published by magazine and regrouped the 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 10
]]> http://chrisurban.com/2009/03/30/healthcare/top-docs-ranking-from-philadelphia-magazine-2/feed/ 0 Top Docs Ranking, from Philadelphia Magazine http://chrisurban.com/2008/05/19/healthcare/top-docs-ranking-from-philadelphia-magazine/ http://chrisurban.com/2008/05/19/healthcare/top-docs-ranking-from-philadelphia-magazine/#comments Tue, 20 May 2008 02:21:14 +0000 Chris Urban http://chrisurban.com/2008/05/19/healthcare/top-docs-ranking-from-philadelphia-magazine/ So magazine releases a list every year of , but these are usually grouped by specialty only. In keeping with our lists for Philadelphia-area , here are the by number of mentioned in the May 2008 issue. Keep in mind several things: this is a completely arbitrary list (i.e., the number of is not necessarily indicative of quality of care), this is a total number of , and is not measured against total employed doctors at a facility, and finally, counts maybe off by as many as a few as this was hand-counted. Corrections are welcomed.

Top 10 Hospitals by Number of ‘Top Docs’

]]> http://chrisurban.com/2008/05/19/healthcare/top-docs-ranking-from-philadelphia-magazine/feed/ 0 2006 Mortality Rates, Congestive Heart Failure http://chrisurban.com/2008/05/16/healthcare/2006-mortality-rates-congestive-heart-failure/ http://chrisurban.com/2008/05/16/healthcare/2006-mortality-rates-congestive-heart-failure/#comments Sat, 17 May 2008 01:34:23 +0000 Chris Urban http://chrisurban.com/2008/05/16/healthcare/2006-mortality-rates-congestive-heart-failure/ In our continuing series where we look at the of and mortality reported by area , here we filter out the with the lowest mortality rates for cases reported as . What is interesting to note is the low actual number of cases, consider the rates are reported as per 1,000 cases.

Peer Group 1, Mortality Rates for Congestive Heart Failure

]]> http://chrisurban.com/2008/05/16/healthcare/2006-mortality-rates-congestive-heart-failure/feed/ 0 2006 Infection Rates Ranking http://chrisurban.com/2008/05/10/healthcare/2006-infection-rates-ranking-2/ http://chrisurban.com/2008/05/10/healthcare/2006-infection-rates-ranking-2/#comments Sat, 10 May 2008 20:23:21 +0000 Chris Urban http://chrisurban.com/2008/05/10/healthcare/2006-infection-rates-ranking-2/ In an objective attempt to qualify which are ‘better’ or ‘worse’ in the area, I’ve been poring over some interesting data provided by the 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 hospitals – here are Peer Group 2 hospital rankings, for cases reported of infections per 1,000 patients, in 2006.

Peer Group 2, Lowest

]]> http://chrisurban.com/2008/05/10/healthcare/2006-infection-rates-ranking-2/feed/ 0 2006 Infection Rates Ranking http://chrisurban.com/2008/05/10/healthcare/2006-infection-rates-ranking/ http://chrisurban.com/2008/05/10/healthcare/2006-infection-rates-ranking/#comments Sat, 10 May 2008 20:17:17 +0000 Chris Urban http://chrisurban.com/2008/05/10/healthcare/2006-infection-rates-ranking/ In an objective attempt to qualify which are ‘better’ or ‘worse’ in the area, I’ve been poring over some interesting data provided by the 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 hospitals – here are results from peer group 1. These are ranked by their reported of , per 1,000 patients.

Peer Group 1, Lowest Infection Rates

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