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As was the case last year, the urban and rural benchmark hospitals most often exceeded their peer groups’ performances by the largest percentages.
— There is a distinct difference in the geographic distribution of this year’s versus last year’s benchmark hospitals. The concentration of benchmark hospitals has shifted from the West to the South.
Performance measures included in the 1995 100 Top Hospitals study were risk-adjusted mortality index, risk-adjusted complications index, severity-adjusted average length of stay, expense per adjusted discharge, profitability, index of outpatient activity, long-term growth in equity, and return on assets.
The 1995 benchmark hospitals reduced expenses per adjusted discharge by 16 percent, lowered mortality by 20 percent, cut length of stay by nine percent, as well as increased, the return on assets by a whopping 58 percent in comparison to the average U.S. hospital.
Culpeper Memorial Hospital is an 80-bed non-profit community hospital that provides a wide range of diagnostic, medical and surgical services for the residents of the five-county area.
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