Two West Michigan hospitals make list of top 100 U.S. hospitals

Nationwide, Michigan ranks number one in the quantity of hospitals named as best in the U.S.; two of those hospitals are in West Michigan.

According to excerpts from the story:

Michigan again has more hospitals than any other state rated among the nation's best in an annual quality ranking. Eleven Michigan hospitals made the Thomson Reuters Top 100 Hospitals for 2008. Ohio has the second-most hospitals on this year's Top 100 list with 10. Michigan and Ohio topped the list together a year ago, with 14 hospitals each. Using Medicare data, the Thomson Reuters National Benchmarks study rates hospitals annually based on nine criteria: Mortality, medical complications, patient safety, average length of stay, expenses, profitability, cash-to-debt ratio, patient satisfaction, and adherence to clinical standards of care.

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