St. Anthony Community Hospital named to top 100

Warwick — St. Anthony Community Hospital, a member of the Bon Secours Charity Health System, has once again been selected as the recipient of the Thomson 100 Top Hospitals Performance Improvement Leaders Award (formerly Solucient Award). In receiving this award, St. Anthony becomes one of only four hospitals in the United States to achieve this distinction. To evaluate hospitals for the award, Thomson rated more than 2,800 hospitals on eight factors that reflect clinical outcomes and efficiency, financial strength, and market growth — patient mortality, medical complications, patient safety, length of stay, expenses, profitability, cash-to-debt ratio, and growth in patient volume. The study found that the Thomson Performance Improvement Leaders were more successful than other hospitals in growing outpatient services. “This award is a credit to the dedication and hard work of The St. Anthony health care team, “ said Dominick Stanzione, CEO, Bon Secours Charity Health System. “We thank our staff for their commitment to improving clinical quality, increasing patient safety, providing superb customer service and managing financial operations to ensure we offer the best health care possible to our community.” The longstanding Solucient 100 Top Hospitals program was renamed this year, when the Thomson Corporation acquired Solucient, LLC, and integrated it into Thomson Healthcare, a nationwide provider of health care information and decision support solutions. Thomson Healthcare products and services help clinicians, hospitals, employers, health plans, government agencies, and pharmaceutical companies manage the cost and improve the quality of health care. “This recognition is a tribute to the winning hospitals’ management teams, which are providing enormous value to their communities,” said Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president for performance improvement and 100 Top Hospitals programs at Thomson Healthcare. “These hospitals are an important group to watch because they demonstrate a variety of ways that real improvement can be achieved in many key areas across the hospital organization simultaneously over an extended timeframe.” More information on this study and other 100 Top Hospitals research is available at www.100TopHospitals.com.