Becker's Hospital Review

26 The List Issue Conference of e United Methodist Church. Methodist received the Texas Award for Perfor- mance Excellence from the Quality Texas Foun- dation in 2015. e TAPE award establishes the system as a consistent leader in quality care and a role model for having sustained performance excellence. Methodist is also a great place to work — it was named among Dallas Business Journal's Healthiest Employers in North Texas this year and was recognized as a Platinum-Level Fit-Friendly Worksite by the American Heart Association. e system's president and CEO has also received major recognitions recently. Stephen Mansfield, PhD, was named Outstanding Healthcare Execu- tive of the Year by D Magazine in 2014. Dr. Man- sfield has led the system since 2006. Mission Health (Asheville, N.C.). Mission Health is North Carolina's sixth-largest health system and the region's only nonprofit indepen- dent community hospital system managed exclu- sively in North Carolina. But the system has been recognized for excellence outside of its state: Mis- sion Health has been named one of Truven Health Analytics' 15 Top Health Systems every year from 2012 to 2015. Mission Health was formed in 1996 when two hospitals — St. Joseph's Hospital and Memorial Mission Medical Center — started an organiza- tional partnership. ey later merged in 1998. Today, the system boasts six hospitals, many outpatient and surgery centers, post-acute care provider CarePartners and long-term acute care provider Asheville Specialty Hospital. It has a medical staff of more than 1,000 physicians and a workforce nearly 10,000 strong, including more than 1,800 registered nurses. Mission Health is committed to making health- care more patient-centered. For instance, the sys- tem held the inaugural Humonizing Healthcare Technologies conference in 2014 in partnership with Rock Health and Vocera. e system is also involved in an accountable care organization. Mount Sinai Health System (New York City). Mount Sinai Health System is fairly new in the industry, as it was formed in 2013 by the combina- tion of e Mount Sinai Medical Center and Con- tinuum Health Partners. However, its history dates back to the mid 1800s, as e Mount Sinai Hospital was chartered in 1852 and the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai was chartered in 1820. Today, the system boasts a total of 3,535 beds and bills itself as the largest health system in the New York state. It includes seven member hospitals, 12 ambulatory surgical centers, 10 free-standing am- bulatory surgical centers that are minority owned and more than 200 community locations where health system physicians treat patients. e sys- tem also includes the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Mount Sinai Health System has embraced the principles of diversity and inclusion as drivers of excellence. Gary Butts, MD, leads the charge at the system as its chief diversity and inclusion of- ficer, and his and the system's work in this area has gained recognition: DiversityInc named Mount Sinai Health System as one of the Top 5 Hospi- tals and Health Systems for 2015 based on perfor- mance in four areas of diversity management: tal- ent pipeline, equitable talent development, CEO/ leadership commitment and supplier diversity. North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System (Great Neck, N.Y.). North Shore-LIJ is the largest healthcare provider in the New York metropolitan area and one of the largest health systems in the nation. It was formed in 1997 from the merger of North Shore Health System and Long Island Jew- ish Medical Center. e system has 17 hospitals, including five major tertiary teaching hospitals, three long-term care facilities, home care services, hospice, ambu- lance providers and a network of approximately 400 ambulatory sites. North Shore-LIJ clinicians care for more than 282,000 inpatients, perform more than 190,000 surgical procedures, deliver 27,300 babies and provide care for approximately 645,000 emergency department visits every year. e Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, es- tablished in 1999, ranks it in the top seventh per- centile for research support to organizations from the National Institutes of Health. Michael J. Dowling, president and CEO, has led North Shore-LIJ since 2002. Under his leadership, the system has gained recognition for numerous achievements, including in culture and the com- munity. In 2014, eight North Shore-LIJ facilities were named Leaders in LGBT Healthcare Equal- ity by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. NorthShore University Health System (Evan- ston, Ill.). A fully integrated healthcare delivery system, NorthShore includes four hospitals in the Chicago suburbs of Evanston, Glenbrook, High- land Park and Skokie, and is the principle teach- ing affiliate for the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. NorthShore employs roughly 9,700 people, and its nonprofit faculty group prac- tice, NorthShore Medical Group, has more than 800 physicians. With a history dating back to 1891 with the for- mation of Evanston Hospital, NorthShore has not stopped evolving and growing. For instance, it created the NorthShore Research Institute in Oc- tober 1996 to house its research activities. Today, it has roughly 200 externally funded research fac- ulty who work on more than 1,000 active research protocols. Additionally, in 2003, NorthShore Foundation was created and is dedicated to at- tracting and stewarding philanthropy to support the system's mission. e system has also grown to include NorthShore Home and Hospice Ser- vices, a hospital-based, nonprofit agency offering home and hospice care. Today, the system has not lost its penchant for growth. NorthShore is currently preparing to merge with Downers Grove, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care. e merger is still under Federal Trade Commission review. If approved, it would form a 16-hospital system called Advocate North- Shore Health Partners. Northwestern Memorial HealthCare (Chica- go). Northwestern Memorial HealthCare is an academic health system with entities that oper- ate as Northwestern Medicine. NMHC as it is to- day was created from a September 2014 merger between the system and Winfield, Ill.-based Ca- dence Health. Today, the system has more than 60 care sites, including four award-winning hospitals in the Chicagoland area: Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest (Ill.) Hospital, Northwestern Medi- cine Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, North- western Medicine Delnor Hospital in Geneva and Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Northwestern Medicine is the collaboration be- tween NMHC and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. It encompasses the research, teaching and patient care services of the academic health system. In addition to patient care, NMHC also includes the Northwestern Memorial Insurance Company, offering professional and general liability coverage to the hospital and its affiliates; the Northwestern HealthCare Corporation, which contracts with managed care payers; and the Northwestern Me- morial Foundation. Additionally, Cadence Health ACO, which is now part of Northwestern Medi- cine, was chosen as a Medicare Shared Savings Program accountable care organization in Janu- ary. e ACO covers about 18,000 beneficiaries. Novant Health (Winston-Salem, N.C.). e Novant Health System was formed July 1, 1997, through the merger of Carolina Medicorp of Win- ston-Salem, N.C., and Presbyterian Health Ser- vices of Charlotte, N.C. but its roots reach back to the late 19th century. Twin City Hospital — what would later become Novant Health Forsyth Medi- cal Center — opened in Winston-Salem in 1891. Today, nonprofit integrated Novant Health has 15 medical centers with a staff of 24,000 employees and physician partners across North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia. It includes 1,123 physicians in 343 clinic locations in addi- tion to numerous outpatient surgery centers, medical plazas, rehabilitation programs, diagnos- tic imaging centers and community health out- reach programs. In recent years, Novant Health has been recog- nized for various achievements, including e Joint Commission's Ernest A. Codman Award for reducing medical complications and improv- ing safety, VHA's President's Award for improving quality and reaching clinical excellence and the President's Award from Professional Research Consultants for customer service excellence. Ochsner Health System (New Orleans). Alton Ochsner and four colleagues opened the first multi-specialty group practice in New Orleans in 1942. Since then, Ochsner has grown into the largest nonprofit healthcare system in the region, comprised of eight hospitals and more than 38 neighborhood health centers. Ochsner is regarded as a national leader in medi-

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