Free data set
See how the 100 Top Hospitals contribute to community health
Overview
What is 100 Top Hospitals?
For most hospital leaders, it’s not enough to know who are top hospitals. They want to know “Why?” and “What can we do to rank among the best hospitals?"
Watson Health® 100 Top Hospitals® answers these questions by conducting an annual, in-depth study of US hospital performance. It's more than a best hospitals honor roll. The data produce custom reports that can help hospitals and health systems achieve results.
Benefits
How leaders use 100 Top Hospitals
See how 100 Top consulting services, custom reports and database access can help your hospital
Optimize performance
Kickstart and sustain your transformation, even during a pandemic
Focus on what matters
Understand and prioritize general hospital strengths and opportunities
Gain stakeholder buy-in
Access widely-used measures to help foster collaboration
About the study
Approach
The Watson Health® 100 Top Hospitals® study identifies the top-performing hospitals in the US using a balanced scorecard of clinical, operational and financial metrics (PDF, 996 KB) derived from public data. As the industry has evolved, so has the study.
Partnering with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (link resides outside ibm.com) in 2021, we drafted a new metric for hospital contributions to community health (PDF, 98 KB), with a focus on equity. This marks the first major hospital rankings to include a quantitative measure of community health as an equal measure. View the final methodology proposal (PDF, 3.8 MB).
Stats
If all hospitals performed like this year’s winners:
Lives saved
79,000
additional lives could be saved in-hospital
Costs saved
USD 10.1
billion in inpatient costs could be saved
Readmissions lowered
34,000
fewer patients who were discharged would be readmitted within 30 days
Related products
15 Top Health Systems
Assesses and supports US health systems based on data derived from aggregating hospital performance.
50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals
Ranks and supports US hospitals based on annual study of care delivered to certain cardiology heart patients.
Hospital solutions
Accelerate your digital transformation and optimize performance with solutions and services from Watson Health.