PHILADELPHIA — For the second consecutive year, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center has ranked among the nation's top 100 hospitals, according to the annual study by Truven Health Analytics, formerly the Healthcare business of Thomson Reuters. The study identifies the 100 Top Hospitals based on their overall organizational performance in 10 areas including mortality, patient safety, patient satisfaction, adherence to clinical standards of care, and readmission rates for acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), heart failure, and pneumonia. Penn Presbyterian was recognized in the category of Major Teaching Hospitals, and is one of only two in the state of Pennsylvania to be included in the new study. In October, Truven Health also named Penn Presbyterian one of the 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals in the nation.
“Being listed among the top 100 hospitals is further proof of Penn Presbyterian’s positive impact to the community and our dedication to providing the highest-quality patient care,” said Michele Volpe, executive director and CEO, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. “This honor, in conjunction with our other accomplishments over the last year – including achieving Magnet recognition, Primary Stroke Certification, and the Gold Seal of Approval from the Joint Commission in Orthopaedics – are great reminders of the extraordinary faculty and staff who give so much of themselves here every day. We look forward to continuing to foster this culture of excellence and growth in the years to come.”
To conduct the 100 Top Hospitals study, Truven Health researchers evaluated 2,922 short-term, acute-care, non-federal hospitals. They used public information — Medicare cost reports, Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR) data, and core measures and patient satisfaction data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare website. Winners are stratified by five separate peer comparison groups: major teaching, teaching, large community, medium community, and small community hospitals.
For more than a century, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center has provided outstanding health care services. It has grown tremendously over the years, and today Penn Presbyterian combines state-of-the-art technology with personalized medicine to deliver superior quality care to every patient. Penn Presbyterian has an outstanding track record of medical accomplishments – such as creating one of the first coronary care units in the country – and in recent years, the hospital has become a leader in performing minimally invasive and robotic-assisted surgery.
Penn Medicine is one of the world’s leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, excellence in patient care, and community service. The organization consists of the University of Pennsylvania Health System and Penn’s Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine, founded in 1765 as the nation’s first medical school.
The Perelman School of Medicine is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $550 million awarded in the 2022 fiscal year. Home to a proud history of “firsts” in medicine, Penn Medicine teams have pioneered discoveries and innovations that have shaped modern medicine, including recent breakthroughs such as CAR T cell therapy for cancer and the mRNA technology used in COVID-19 vaccines.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System’s patient care facilities stretch from the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania to the New Jersey shore. These include the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Chester County Hospital, Lancaster General Health, Penn Medicine Princeton Health, and Pennsylvania Hospital—the nation’s first hospital, founded in 1751. Additional facilities and enterprises include Good Shepherd Penn Partners, Penn Medicine at Home, Lancaster Behavioral Health Hospital, and Princeton House Behavioral Health, among others.
Penn Medicine is an $11.1 billion enterprise powered by more than 49,000 talented faculty and staff.