(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- A new report has found that health care organizations that have won Baldrige National Quality Awards for performance excellence or been considered for a Baldrige Award site visit outperform other hospitals in nearly every metric used to determine the 100 Top Hospitals, a national recognition given by Thomson Reuters.

Commissioned by the Foundation for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, a private organization, and conducted by Thomson Reuters, the report found that Baldrige hospitals were six times more likely to be counted among the 100 Top Hospitals, which represent the top 3 percent of hospitals in the United States, and that they statistically outperform the 100 Top Hospitals on core measures established by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

To evaluate the benefits of health care organizations using the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence, the Baldrige Foundation chose to conduct a comparison with the Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals national study. The 18-year-old Thomson Reuters program is based on a rigorous, time-tested statistical methodology using publicly available, unbiased data.

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