Two local health systems, Poudre Valley Health Systems (PVHS) and Banner Health, made Top 5 rankings in Thomson Reuters annual health systems study.
After examining 30-day mortality rates, survival rates, medical complications, length of stay and overall patient safety for over 300 health systems, Thomson Reuter pulled the Top 5 Health Systems in the following categories: small (operating expenses less than $750 million), medium (operating expenses between $750 million and $1.5 billion) and large (operating expenses over $1.5 billion). PVHS made the Top 5 for small health systems and Banner Health made the Top 5 for large health systems.
PVHS provides services for northern Colorado, southern Wyoming, and western Nebraska. Fort Collins is home to two PVHS hospitals and PVHS’s Medical Center of the Rockies just recently opened their doors in Loveland. In 2008, PVHS received the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award for extraordinary performance.
Banner Health owns and operates the McKee Medical Center in Loveland and the North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley. Additional recent awards and honors for Banner Health include the HealthGrades® 2011 Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence™ and HealthGrades® 2011 Emergency Medicine Excellence Award™.
Two local health systems, Poudre Valley Health Systems (PVHS) and Banner Health, made Top 5 rankings in Thomson Reuters annual health systems study.