Intermountain Health hospitals rank top in nation
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Two Intermountain Health hospitals have been named Top 50 heart hospitals in the nation.
Intermountain McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden and Intermountain Medical Center in Murray were ranked as two of the nation’s Top 50 Cardiovascular Hospitals for 2024 by Fortune Magazine and Pinc AI, which evaluates heart hospitals annually to determine facilities that are excelling in providing high-quality, affordable heart care, Intermountain Health said in a press release.
This year’s rankings examined 940 hospitals across the U.S. and assessed their performance based on metrics including clinical outcomes (inpatient deaths and complications, as well as readmission and 30-day mortality rates), operational efficiency (average length of cost and stay), and overall patient experience.
The rankings focus on short-term, acute care, nonfederal hospitals that treat a variety of cardiology patients. Additionally, hospitals must provide all levels of cardiovascular care to be included in the study, the release states.
Intermountain Health said that according to the authors of the study, those in the Top 50 operated at lower cost and had better outcomes than peer hospitals, “recording significantly higher inpatient survival rates, fewer patients with complications, lower readmission rates and up to nearly $10,000 less in total costs per patient case.”
“These outcomes add up to meaningful differences,” the release states. “If all hospitals operated at the level of this year’s top performers, there could be 7,600 fewer deaths due to heart disease, 6,700 fewer bypass and angioplasty patients who suffer complications, and more than $1 billion in inpatient costs could have been saved for the 2024 study year.”
This is the fourth consecutive year that Intermountain Medical Center has been named to the Top 50 list, and the first year for Intermountain McKay-Dee Hospital.
Eric Lindley, MD, medical director of the cardiovascular program at Intermountain McKay-Dee Hospital, said it is a terrific honor to have their efforts recognized by Fortune Magazine.
“Our goal is to provide the very best heart care to our patients close to home here in Northern Utah,” Lindley said. “We’re proud to have those efforts recognized nationally. That’s a credit to our entire team.”
Stephen McKellar, MD, medical director for the cardiovascular program at Intermountain Medical Center, spoke similarly, saying that having two Intermountain hospitals ranked among the Top 50 “is a real honor and speaks to our commitment to our patients.”
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