Just announced: 15 Top Health Systems 2021
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?
Watson Health 15 Top Health Systems offers these valuable insights, as well as services that help health systems apply these insights to help drive performance.

Benefits
How leaders use 15 Top Health Systems
See how 15 Top consulting services and custom reports can help your health system
Know the competition
See how you compare against regional or national peers
Focus on what matters
Understand and prioritize strengths and opportunities
Optimize performance
Kickstart and sustain your organizational transformation
About the study
History and approach
Each year, Watson Health 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
66,000
additional lives could be saved in-hospital
Complications reduced
22,000
additional patients could be complication free
Infections prevented
15%
fewer infections would be acquired by patients
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