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Midlands hospital system among Top 100 in U.S. |
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Friday, 05 February 2010 |
Staff Report
COLUMBIA -- Palmetto Health in Columbia was named among the Top 100 Integrated Health Networks in the United States for 2010 by a health care business news magazine and Web site.
Modern Healthcare ranked Palmetto Health at No. 83 and among four hospital systems in South Carolina to make the Top 100 for 2010.
Others include: Greenville Hospital System (41), Roper St. Francis in Charleston (46), and Bon Secours St. Francis Health System in Greenville (49).
Included in the Top Five were Sentara in Norfolk, Va., St. John’s Mercy in St. Louis, Mo., St. John’s in Springfield, Mo., MultiCare in Tacoma, Wash., and Intermountain in Salt Lake City.
For 13 years, the rankings have identified identify the Top 100 IHNs in the current field of 593 non-specialty, local and regional networks in the U.S. that meet specific critical success factors.
The ratings are based on each network’s ability to operate as a unified organization in eight categories: integration, integrated technology, contractual capabilities, outpatient utilization, financial stability, services and access, hospital utilization and physicians. |
