Standard Peer Groups

Listed below are the Standard Peer groups in QualityAdvisor. Most of the groups are updated automatically in July of each year, however some peer groups may be updated at different times. If this occurs, the update will be included in the Release Notes.

Standard Peer Groups

  • 100 Top Benchmark Hospitals

  • Academic
  • Area
  • Bed Size
  • Birth Volume
  • Blood Utilization & Data Optimization
  • Clinical
  • Community Status
  • Cost Type
  • Council of Teaching Hospitals
  • Critical Access
  • Data Submitted
  • Facility Services
  • Intensive Care & Care Levels
  • Magnet
  • Payer
  • Region
  • State

  • Urban, Academic, & Level I Trauma (UALOT)

100 Top Benchmark Hospitals

This peer group includes the Quality Enterprise and QualityAdvisor members that receive the 100 Top Hospitals award at Premier's annual Breakthroughs conference each summer.

This is a static list and hospitals only populate if they are an active QualityAdvisor subscriber that has published data to the comparative warehouse.

Academic

The Academic peer group only includes active members of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), who are published on the AAMC website. To be included in the peer group, a facility must be an active QualityAdvisor facility and publish data to the comparative warehouse.

Birth Volume

The Birth Volume peer group includes active member with comparatively published volumes meeting the current CDC birth volume denominator definition.

This list include hospital assignments within 1 of the following birth volume ranges (per hospital):

  • 1 - 99 birth per year

  • 100 - 499 births per year

  • 500 - 999 births per year

  • 1000 - 1999 births per year

  • 2000 - 3999 births per year

  • >= 4000 births per year

Critical Access

A Critical Access Hospital (CAH) is certified under a set of Medicare Conditions of Participation (CoP), which are structured differently from the acute care hospital Conditions of Participation. Some of the requirements for CAH certification include:

  • Having no more than 25 inpatient beds
  • Maintaining an annual average length of stay of no more than 96 hours for acute inpatient care
  • Offering 24-hour, 7-day-a-week emergency care
  • Location in a rural area, at least a 35-mile drive (less, in some circumstances) from any other hospital or CAH

The limited size and short length of stay let CAHs focus on providing care for common conditions and outpatient care, while referring other conditions to larger hospitals. Certification allows CAHs to receive cost-based reimbursement from Medicare, instead of standard fixed reimbursement rates. This reimbursement has been shown to enhance the financial performance of small rural hospitals that were losing money prior to CAH conversion and thus reduce hospital closures.

Magnet

Magnet facilities have been recognized for their excellence in nursing services by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) through the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®. For more details about this program, please visit the following web site: http://www.nursecredentialing.org/Magnet.aspx.

The Magnet peer group includes the Premier facilities in QualityAdvisor that achieved Magnet status as of November 2012. The list of Magnet facilities is updated annually.

Safety Net Hospitals

A safety net hospital is a type of medical center (in the United States) that by legal obligation or mission provides healthcare for all individuals regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay.

The Safety Net Hospitals peer group at Premier, includes active members of the America’s Essential Hospitals (AEH) trade group that helps ensure access to care for America’s medically under-served and uninsured populations, and are published on the AEH Website.

To be included in the peer group, a facility must also be an active QualityAdvisor subscriber and publish data to the comparative warehouse.

Urban, Academic, & Level I Trauma (UALOT) Peer Group

The UALOT peer group includes Academic hospitals that are also part of an urban community and have a Level I Trauma center.

The UALOT list is based on the most recent Academic hospital list included in Premier's spring release, and the facility self-identified "Community Status" and "Trauma Level" data from the QA Facility Profile. This peer group is part of the annual peer group update each year.

The ready made list of peer facilities can be manually built using the "Academic", "Urban", and "Level 1 Trauma" peer group selections or if filtering from the QA Facility Profile.