May 26, 2010 00:14 ET

Riverside Medical Center Rated Among Nation's Elite Hospitals

KANKAKEE, IL--(Marketwire - May 26, 2010) -  For the third year in a row, Thomson Reuters has named Riverside Medical Center as one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals. The south Chicago hospital was also recognized as an Everest Award winner. This award is reserved for 100 Top Hospitals that have achieved an even higher level of performance. Riverside Medical Center is extremely honored, as only 23 hospitals across the country earned the Everest Award. 

The 100 Top Hospitals award recognizes the Chicago south suburbs hospital for having achieved excellence in clinical outcomes, patient safety, patient satisfaction, financial performance and operating efficiency. The winners were identified through an in-depth analysis, in which a Thomson Reuters study evaluated the Kankakee County hospital and 2,925 other hospitals in ten different areas. All of these short-term, acute care and non-federal hospitals were evaluated in mortality, medical complications, patient safety, average length of stay, expenses, profitability, patient satisfactions, adherence to clinical standards of care and post-discharge mortality and readmission rates for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure and pneumonia. 

For Riverside Medical Center, being named a 100 Top Hospital is a tremendous honor, but to also be named as one of the hospitals to receive the Everest Award really exemplifies Riverside's unending commitment to the community and patients they care for. The south Chicago hospital and the 22 other hospitals awarded with this honor are leaders and innovators and help to bring great value to their communities. These hospitals developed long-term strategies and executed them with extraordinary skill to produce extraordinary results. 

Riverside Medical Center also recently received the HealthGrades Patient Safety Excellence Award for the fifth straight year. That distinction makes Riverside one of only three hospitals in Illinois and one of 59 hospitals in the nation to achieve the award for five or more consecutive years. Earlier this year, Riverside also received multiple Specialty Excellence Awards from HealthGrades in orthopedic surgery, joint replacement, spine surgery and treatment of stroke. 

Riverside Medical Center is one of the best hospitals that you can find anywhere, and this study proves it. While Riverside is proud to be named one of the best, they simply got that ranking by just being the best. 

For more information about the quality services offered by Riverside Medical Center, visit www.RiversideMC.net or call (815) 933-1671.