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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