For most businesses, excellence is important. For hospitals, where daily operations are a matter of life and death, it’s essential.
For more than 30 years, that’s been the guiding notion behind the 100 Top Hospitals program, which works to recognize the highest-quality performers and drive continual improvement in the industry through its annual data-driven ranking of the nation’s 100 best hospitals. This year’s Fortune/PINC AI Top Hospital List is based on an analysis of publicly available Medicare data that reflect measures of clinical outcomes, operational efficiency, patient experience, and financial health. Researchers from PINC AI—the technology platform for the health care company Premier—crunched the numbers for 2,601 acute-care, nonfederal U.S. hospitals that were grouped according to five categories: small, medium, and large community hospitals; and teaching and major teaching hospitals. Their analysis also considers a survey-based measure intended to capture a hospital’s contribution to health and health equity in its community.
