Five of the country's top 15 major teaching hospitals are in the Chicago area, according to an annual study released Monday that evaluates performance in 10 categories of publicly available data.
The study, conducted by Truven Health Analytics, the former health care business of Thomson Reuters, listed seven Chicagoland hospitals among the nation's top 100, including four owned by Advocate Health Care.
Researchers evaluated 2,922 acute-care hospitals using information from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, including cost, patient satisfaction and quality measures, such as re-admission rates, patient safety, mortality and medical complications. Hospitals do not apply or pay for inclusion on the list, which has been produced since 1993.
The seven Illinois hospitals that made the Top 100
- Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn
- Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago
- Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge
- Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove
- Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield
- NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago
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