2023 Top Hospitals: Leading the Way in Healthcare
Data reveals Georgia's hospital rankings.
Hospital rankings can provide useful benchmark information; however, it is important to understand what factors may impact such rankings. Every year, Georgia Trend evaluates Georgia hospitals that participated in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(CMS) Hospital Value-Based Purchasing program. The hospitals are ranked by the total performance score that is usually derived from four domains: clinical outcomes; person and community engagement; safety; and efficiency and cost reduction. Due to the pandemic, CMS adopted a policy to pause the use of data if it determined that COVID-19 had a significant impact on such measures. Last year’s rankings were based only on the clinical outcomes domain.
This year’s rankings are based on two of the four domains: the clinical outcomes domain and the efficiency and cost-reduction domain. As in past rankings, hospitals were grouped by similar size and mission to include the categories of: Teaching Hospitals, whose primary mission is teaching, regardless of size, and which are certified by the Association of American Medical Colleges Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems; Large Hospitals (250+ patient beds); Medium Hospitals (100 to 249 beds); and Small Hospitals (less than 100 beds). These rankings are based on the American Hospital Directory and CMS data downloaded July 29, 2023.
Mark A. Thompson is the interim dean and professor of the Hull College of Business at Augusta University.
