Recognizing quality patient care, nursing excellence, and innovations in professional nursing practice, ANCC's Magnet Recognition Program® provides consumers with the ultimate benchmark to measure the quality of care that they can expect to receive.

• When U.S. News & World Report publishes its annual showcase of "America's Best Hospitals," being an ANCC Magnet® organization contributes to the total score for quality of inpatient care. ANCC is one of only a few organizations providing outside data to the ranking methodology. In the 2009 listing, 15 of the top 21 (71%) medical centers featured in the prestigious Honor Roll are Magnet-recognized organizations (July 20, 2009). View the list at: http://health.usnews.com/health/best-hospitals.
  
  Six of the eight (75%) children's hospitals that made U.S. News and World Report's 2010-2011 Honor Roll of "Best Hospitals" are Magnet (June 2, 2010). In order to make this Honor Roll, the facilities needed to rank in 10 specialties (cancer, gastroenterology, heart and heart surgery, neurology, neonatology, and pulmonology and for two years in diabetes and endocrinology, kidney, orthopedics, and urology). View the list at: http://health.usnews.com/health-news/best-childrens-hospitals/articles/2010/06/02/best-childrens-hospitals-2010-11-the-honor-roll.html.

• Ten of the fourteen healthcare organizations (71%) listed in Fortune Magazine's 2010 "100 Best Companies to Work For®" are Magnet-recognized organizations or have Magnet facilities in their system. (February 8, 2010).
  http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2010/full_list/

• 24% of the healthcare organizations identified in Health Grades "America's 50 Best Hospitals 2009" are Magnet-recognized. (February 24, 2010).
  www.healthgrades.com/cms/ratings-and-awards/2010-Americas-50-Best-Hospitals-Award-Announcement.aspx

• The Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals®: National Benchmarks study evaluates performance in 10 areas: mortality, medical complications, patient safety, average length of stay, expenses, profitability, patient satisfaction, adherence to clinical standards of care, and post-discharge mortality and readmission rates for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia. The study has been conducted annually since 1993. To conduct the 100 Top Hospitals study, Thomson Reuters researchers evaluated 2,926 short-term, acute care, non-federal hospitals. They used public information — Medicare cost reports, Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR) data, and core measures and patient satisfaction data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare data set.
  
  Here are the numbers by the  size groupings:

  •	Major teaching hospitals:	11/15 = Magnet	73.33%
  •	Teaching hospitals	12/25 = Magnet	48%
  	(200 or more acute-care beds)
  •	Large community hospitals	4/20 = Magnet	20%
  	(250 or more acute-care beds)
  •	Medium-size community hospitals	2/20 = Magnet	10%
  	(100-249 acute-care beds)
  •	Small community hospitals	1/20 = Magnet	5%
  	(25-99 acute care beds)

  Of the 23 hospitals named as "Everest Award Winners" for  fastest Improvement and top performance, 5 are Magnet designated. (21.7%)
  http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Thomson-Reuters-Announces-100-prnews-1305948449.html