For the second consecutive year, Sutter Davis Hospital was named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals by Thomson Reuters, which provides information and solutions to improve the cost and quality of healthcare.

Sutter Davis is the only hospital in the greater Sacramento region to receive the recognition, a news release said.

The Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals study evaluates performance in 10 areas: mortality; medical complications; patient safety; average patient stay; expenses; profitability; patient satisfaction; adherence to clinical standards of care; post-discharge mortality; and readmission rates for acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), heart failure and pneumonia.

The study has been conducted annually since 1993. This is the third time Sutter Davis has been recognized with this honor, also being named a 100 Top Hospital in 2008 and 2011.

“This well-respected and well-deserved recognition is another acknowledgement of our commitment to safer patient care and patient satisfaction,” said Janet Wagner, CEO of Sutter Davis Hospital, in the news release. “We’re proud to receive this recognition in consecutive years, because we are always striving to improve our services for our patients and the community in general.”

To conduct the 100 Top Hospitals study, Thomson Reuters researchers evaluated 2,886 short-term, acute care, non-federal hospitals. They used public information — Medicare cost reports, Medicare Provider Analysis and Review data, and core measures and patient satisfaction data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital Compare website. Hospitals do not apply, and winners do not pay to market this honor.

The winning hospitals were announced in the April 16 edition of Modern Healthcare magazine.

“This year, the concentration of 100 Top Hospitals award winners has shifted significantly, with Texas, Florida and California housing the most winners,” said Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president at Thomson Reuters, in the news release. “A major change in performance geographically is an encouraging indication that the bar for quality care has been raised once again.”

Based on comparisons between the study winners and a peer group of similar high-volume hospitals that were not winners, Thomson Reuters found that if all hospitals performed at the level of this year’s winners:

* More than 186,000 additional lives could be saved;

* Approximately 56,000 additional patients could be complication-free;

* More than $4.3 billion could be saved; and

* The average patient stay would decrease by nearly half a day.

Thomson Reuters based this analysis on the Medicare patients included in this study. If the same standards were applied to all inpatients, the impact would be even greater, the news release said. More information on this study and other 100 Top Hospitals research is available at www.100tophospitals.com.

Sutter Davis Hospital, part of Sutter Health’s network of care, offers a technologically advanced acute-care hospital, outpatient services and community outreach programs. The 94,000-square-foot hospital opened in 1994 and sits on a 20-acre medical campus. The 48-bed hospital and its programs provide care and support to the residents of Davis, Dixon, Winters, Woodland, West Sacramento, Vacaville and rural communities throughout Yolo and eastern Solano counties. For more on the hospital, visit www.sutterdavis.org.

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