Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals®
Measuring hospital performance and leadership for thousands of US providers.
50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals 2021 announced
Overview
What is the 100 Top Hospitals program?
The 100 Top Hospitals program produces three annual studies on health system and hospital outcomes performance. Additional studies and consulting services are available to facilitate improvement.
Learn about the characteristics of winning hospitals (PDF, 820 KB)
The winners
15 Top Health Systems
Rolls member hospital outcomes scores into a system performance score and evaluates the consistency of member hospitals.
100 Top Hospitals
Provides a balanced measure of hospital outcomes (such as inpatient and extended clinical outcomes) with a composite score for overall performance.
50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals
Measures hospital outcomes and calculates a composite score for certain cardiovascular admissions.
Study overview
A multi-dimensional understanding of your organization’s relative competitive performance is critical. The 100 Top Hospitals program provides clear insights to help drive improvement.
100 Top Hospitals (PDF, 13.6 MB)
15 Top Health Systems (PDF, 1.4 MB)
Our methodology
Providing a holistic view
Each study includes multiple performance measures that ultimately yield the composite scores for ranking each hospital or health system. Use the boxes below to explore the details.
15 Top Health Systems
100 Top Hospitals
50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals
Benefits
Benchmarks provide context
Each study creates peer benchmarks based on the top performers.With benchmarks, you can see how your performance compares overall, by domain, and to similar organizations.
Rapid improvement
Each year, the 100 Top Hospitals study measures the improvement of the winners across five years. The fastest improving organizations are recognized with an Everest Award.
Organizations are included in the Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals® program studies based solely data availability from Medicare and meeting the criteria detailed in the executive summary for each study:
15 Top Health Systems (PDF, 1.4 MB)
100 Top Hospitals (PDF, 1.6 MB)
50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals (PDF, 873 KB)
Hospitals do not apply or pay to participate in the studies, nor do winners pay to promote their award.To uphold the integrity of the study, it is the policy of IBM Watson Health to revoke a 100 Top Hospitals award if hospital data is found to be inaccurate or misleading for any 100 Top Hospitals data source. At the sole discretion of IBM Watson Health, the circumstances under which an award could be revoked include, but are not limited to, inaccurate data and agency investigations or sanctions.