Mother Frances Hospital named in nation's top 100

Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler has been named a Top 100 Hospitals National Benchmarks for Success winner by Solucient®. The 14th edition of the Solucient 100 Top Hospitals: National Benchmarks for Success study objectively identifies hospitals that are the highest performers in the nation. The award recognizes hospitals that have achieved excellence in clinical outcomes, patient safety, financial performance, efficiency, and growth in patient volume.

Mother Frances Hospital was recognized as one of 20 large community hospitals in the U.S. to earn the distinction and one of only two in Texas in this category.

"The 100 Top Hospitals designation is a tribute to our physicians, clinicians and employees who have worked diligently to significantly elevate the quality and efficiency of health care at Mother Frances Hospital," said Lindsey Bradley, FACHE, president, Trinity Mother Frances Health System. "It has taken many years of focus and dedication to achieve this designation and we are very proud."

The hospital Center for Advanced Surgery and Technology includes robotic surgery, heart catheterization labs and other technological capabilities found at few other places in the country.

The National Benchmarks for Success annual study identifies the nation's top organizationwide performers, using the two most recent years of data. The study uses a balanced scorecard approach, centered on several key organization-wide measures including risk-adjusted mortality, risk-adjusted complications, risk-adjusted patient safety, core measures score, and growth in patient volume.

According to Solucient, The 100 Top Hospitals® have higher survival rates, keep more patients complication-free and attract more patients. Solucient estimates that if all Medicare inpatients received the same level of care as those in the 100 Top Hospitals winners: more than 100,000 additional patients would survive each year; more than 114,000 patient complications would be avoided annually; expenses would decline by an aggregate $10.9 billion a year; and the average patient stay would decrease by more than half a day.