April 20, 2023 – For the third consecutive year, Intermountain Medical Center in Murray has been named one of the nation’s top 50 cardiovascular hospitals for providing excellent heart care by Fortune Magazine and PINC AI, a national healthcare quality firm, which publishes an annual ranking of America’s best heart hospitals.
For 2023, Intermountain Medical Center was ranked as the 10th leading teaching heart hospital in the nation in Fortune’s Top 50 Cardiovascular Hospitals study, which identifies hospitals throughout the United States that demonstrate the highest clinical and operational performance in heart and vascular care.
Since 1998, the Top Cardiovascular Hospitals study has drawn upon publicly available data to rank top-performing heart hospitals. The goal is to highlight the best providers, but also to benchmark high-quality care and drive improvement across all systems over time.
For the rankings, Fortune and PINC AI examined more than 900 hospitals in the US that treat a broad range of cardiovascular patients. Hospitals and health systems do not apply to participate in the study. Hospitals were segmented into three groups — community hospitals, teaching hospitals with cardiovascular residency programs, and teaching hospitals without them — and evaluated according to measures that capture, among other things, clinical outcomes, efficiency, and patient experience.
The study found that compared to peer hospitals, hospitals that are ranked in the Top 50, such as Intermountain Medical Center, operated at lower cost and had better outcomes, recorded significantly higher inpatient survival rates, has fewer patients with complications, and experienced lower readmission rates.
Intermountain Medical Center was highly rated by Fortune and PINC AI for treatment of heart attacks, heart failure, coronary bypass care, and percutaneous coronary intervention procedures.