Guthrie’s Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pennsylvania, has been named to Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals®. Thomson Reuters is an international consulting company specializing in the legal, financial, tax and accounting and healthcare industries. Their researchers evaluated 2,914 short-term, acute care, non-federal hospitals for Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals®.
The study evaluates performance in nine areas: mortality; medical complications; patient safety; average patient stay; profitability; patient satisfaction; adherence to clinical standards of care; post-discharge mortality; and readmission rates for acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), heart failure, and pneumonia.
Robert Packer Hospital has now earned specialty designations from Thomson Reuters a total of 18 times in the past 11 years: 7 times as a 100 Top Hospitals: Cardiovascular Benchmarks; 4 times as a 100 Top Hospitals: Performance Improvement Leaders; 5 times as a 100 Top Hospitals: National Benchmarks; and twice as a 100 Top Hospitals: Everest Award for National Benchmarks – a record unmatched by any other hospital in Guthrie’s service area.