West Valley Medical Center and Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center are part of a health system that has landed on a prominent national ranking for the fourth consecutive year.
At a Glance:
- HCA Healthcare‘s Mountain Division named among 15 top health systems
- West Valley Medical Center and EIRMC are only Idaho hospitals on list
- Top systems showed 22.3% lower inpatient mortality and 28.6% fewer infections
The hospitals, along with sister locations in Utah and Alaska, make up HCA Healthcare’s Mountain Division, which was again named one of the nation’s 15 Top Health Systems by Modern Healthcare. The ranking is based on an objective quantitative analysis by Premier, Inc., which evaluated 336 health systems using publicly available data. Only three health systems have made the list in each of the last four years, including the Mountain Division.
West Valley, located in Caldwell, and EIRMC, in Idaho Falls, are the only Idaho hospitals belonging to a health system on the list…