Mercy General Hospital was named one of Solucient's 100 Top Hospitals in the 2006 Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success report. Mercy General was one of just two hospitals in California to be included in the 2006 list and the only hospital in the greater Sacramento area.
The eighth edition of the Solucient 100 Top Hospitals: Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success study analyzed acute-care hospitals nationwide using detailed data from publicly available 2004 and 2005 Medicare reports. The 100 Top Hospitals Cardiovascular winners are noted for bringing value to their communities by setting national benchmarks for clinical process, outcomes and efficiency, as well as reasonable cost. The hospitals also meet volume standards for both percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) and coronary artery bypass grafts (CABGs).
Solucient? scored facilities in eight key performance areas: risk-adjusted medical mortality, risk-adjusted surgical mortality, risk-adjusted complications, core measures score, percentage of CABG patients with internal mammary artery use, procedure volume, severity-adjusted average length of stay, and wage- and severity-adjusted average cost.
The measures were calculated for three classes of hospitals with the following number of winners in each:
- Teaching with cardiovascular residency programs, 30 winners
- Teaching without cardiovascular residency programs, 40 winners
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Community, 30 winners
Mercy General was one of the community hospital winners. The only other California hospital listed in the Top 100 list is found in the Bay Area, El Camino Hospital in the Silicon Valley city of Mountain View.
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