Trover Health System is proud to be named one of the nation's 100 top hospitals. Trover was recognized as a 2009 Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals: National Benchmarks winner. This prestigious award means that patients at this hospital are more likely to receive reliable, efficient care at a reasonable cost with high satisfaction.

The award recognizes hospitals that have achieved excellence in clinical outcomes, patient safety, patient satisfaction, financial performance, and operational efficiency. This is the second time Trover has been recognized with this honor.

The recipients of the Thomson Reuters Top 100 Hospitals award were identified through an in-depth analysis of 3,000 short-term, acute care, non-federal hospitals in nine areas: mortality, medical complications, patient safety, average length of stay, expenses, profitability, cash-to-debt ratio, patient satisfaction, and adherence to clinical standards of care.

If all Medicare inpatients received the same level of care as Medicare patients treated in the winning hospitals:

• More than 107,500 additional patients would survive each year.
• Nearly 132,000 patient complications would be avoided annually.
• Expenses would decline by $5.9 billion a year.
• The average patient stay would decrease by nearly half a day.

More information on this study and other 100 Top Hospitals research is available at www.100tophospitals.com.