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Beverly Hospital Named As 100 Top Hospitals 

Beverly Hospital Named One of the Nation’s 100 Top Hospitals for Fifth Year

Fifth National Recognition for Beverly Hospital in Seven Years for Excellence in Patient Care

The hospital was rated against more than 2,800 acute general hospitals in a year-long statistical analysis based solely on objective, quantitative performance standards that are consistent across all U.S. hospitals.  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) was also named to the 100 Top Hospitals® listing. Beverly Hospital and BIDMC embarked on an Oncology affiliation last year bringing enhanced access to top-quality cancer treatment to the North Shore.  Beverly Hospital and BIDMC also share a clinical affiliation in high risk pregnancy services and a transfer agreement for stroke and trauma patients who need tertiary care.

“This award is recognition and validation of the expertise, hard work and dedication of our staff and physicians in providing the highest level of patient care and service,” says Stephen R. Laverty, president and CEO of Northeast Hospital Corporation.  “It also demonstrates just how important the care that we provide is to the citizens of the North Shore.”

Receiving the 100 Top Hospitals® distinction, not once but five times, is a major achievement for Beverly Hospital.  The award is based on a set of measures that reflect highly effective performance across the whole organization, including board members, medical staff, nursing, employees and management.  Beverly Hospital achieved 100 Top status in large part because of exceeding the median performance of large community hospitals benchmark peer group in five of the nine categories. The categories measured include:

• Patient Outcomes: Survival rates for all patients, plus low rates of surgical complications like infections and severe bleeding after surgery.

• Patient Safety: Avoiding unwanted events, like respiratory failure, infections and unexpected deaths in low-risk diseases, which occur    infrequently, but which all hospitals are working to reduce.

• Core Measures: A set of basic care practices that all heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia patients should receive.

• Efficiency: Length of patient stay and average expense.  In the best hospitals, all parts of the organization work together to do the right thing at the right time. When this happens, patients return to their daily lives faster and costs are usually lower.

• Financial Stability: A high-performing hospital must be well-managed financially so it can attract the best healthcare professionals, acquire new technology and expand services to improve results for patients.  A high-performing hospital must have enough cash to pay down their bills and must generate a surplus to be financially stable and invest in the future.

• Growth in Service: Growth from one year to the next in the number of patients seeking treatment in the hospital’s inpatient, emergency department, ambulatory surgery and outpatient services.  This growth is an indirect reflection of how satisfied patients are with the services provided. Beverly Hospital exceeded the median level in this category by more than 80 percent.

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Northeast Hospital Corporation
As affiliates of Northeast Hospital Corporation, Beverly Hospital and Addison Gilbert Hospital are full service community hospitals providing quality, patient-centered care to North Shore residents. Services include maternity, pediatrics, surgical, cardiology, orthopedics, as well as other specialties. The hospitals boast a medical staff of more than 570 physicians and their service area includes 13 communities.