Baptist Northeast is Top 100 Performance Improvement Leader for second time

For the second consecutive year, Baptist Hospital Northeast in La Grange has been named one of the 2007 Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals®: Performance Improvement Leaders.

The hospital was recognized by the healthcare information company for the fastest and most consistent performance improvement from 2002 to 2006, based upon an analysis of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid data.

Baptist Northeast, one of only six Kentucky hospitals recognized, is the only one in Kentucky named in the small community hospitals (25 to 99 acute-care beds) category.

Other Kentucky hospitals selected were Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown and Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah (in the large community hospitals division – 250 or more); Murray-Calloway County Hospital in Murray, Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center in Danville and St. Joseph East in Lexington (all in the medium community hospitals division – 100 to 249 beds).

The list has been compiled annually by Thomson Healthcare (formerly Solucient) since 1993. It was published in the Aug. 11 issue of Modern Healthcare magazine.

Objective statistical national comparisons were used to measure improvement of clinical outcomes, patient safety, efficiency, financial stability and growth, according to Thomson Reuters.