Overview
What is 15 Top Health Systems?
The healthcare marketplace has never been more competitive. Do you know what sets your health system apart – and where it lags behind?
Merative 15 Top Health Systems offers these valuable insights, as well as services that help health systems apply these insights to help drive performance.

About the study
History and approach
Each year, Merative 15 Top Health Systems conducts a rigorous analysis of US health system performance based on metrics aggregated from individual hospital data. The result is a list of the top performing US health systems in the nation – based on a balanced scorecard derived from publicly available clinical, operational and patient experience data.
Stats
If all health systems performed like this year’s winners:
Lives saved
104,000
additional lives could be saved in-hospital
Costs saved
USD 12.5
billion in inpatient costs could be saved
Readmissions lowered
18,600
fewer patients who were discharged would be readmitted within 30 days