Southern Hills Hospital recognized as one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals® for fourth year in a row

Las Vegas, Nev. — Southern Hills Hospital & Medical Center is being recognized today as one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals® in the teaching category. The independent quality analysis is provided by Premier, Inc. and reported in Fortune.

This marks the fourth consecutive year Southern Hills Hospital has made the top 100 list. For 30 years, the 100 Top Hospitals® program has produced annual studies designed to recognize the nation's highest-performing hospitals.

"It’s a privilege to be recognized among the Top 100 Hospitals in the country," said Southern Hills Hospital Chief Executive Officer Alexis Mussi. "This prestigious honor reflects our unwavering commitment to excellence in patient care and the dedication of our entire team. Being consistently recognized at the national level reaffirms that our efforts in patient safety and quality care continue to make a meaningful impact.”

This year, based on comparisons between the study's top performers and a peer group of similar hospitals, the analysis found that the top performers of the 100 Top Hospitals® program delivered better outcomes while operating more efficiently and at a lower cost. Compared to peer hospitals, this year's top performers had:

• 39 percent fewer inpatient deaths than peer hospitals.
• 26.5 percent fewer patients with complications.
• 32 percent fewer healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
• 18 percent lower inpatient expense per discharge.
• 0.4-day shorter average length of stay.
• A better patient experience at top performing hospitals compared to the remaining peer hospitals, with a top-box Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) score of 73 percent versus 68 percent at peer hospitals.

These outcomes add up to meaningful differences. According to the study’s analysis, if all hospitals operated at the level of this year’s top performers, more than 331,000 additional lives could have been saved, over 611,000 additional patients could have been complication-free and more than $15.1 billion in inpatient costs could have been saved for the 2025 study year. This analysis is based on Medicare patients included in this study. If the same standards were applied to all inpatients, the impact could have been even greater.

The 100 Top Hospitals® program aims to inspire hospital and health system leaders to strive for higher performance and provide added value to the communities they serve. These measurements transparently help health system leaders compare their performance to that of their competitors by using objective, reliable and significant indicators of operational excellence.