Named one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals®

Riverside Community Hospital has been identified as one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals® according to an independent quality analysis provided by Premier, Inc., in the category of Major Teaching Hospitals. Only four California hospitals made the list of one hundred and Riverside Community Hospital is one of two California hospitals in the Major Teaching Hospitals category.

To create the list, an objective, quantitative analysis of publicly available data was conducted to identify the top hospitals in the United States. The primary purpose of Premier’s 100 Top Teaching Hospitals® program is to inspire hospital and health system leaders to pursue higher performance and deliver added value to patients and communities. Participation in the study is not application-based, and award winners do not pay to market their honor.

“It’s our honor to be named one of the Nation’s 100 Top Hospitals in the Major Teaching Hospitals category,” said Peter Hemstead, chief executive officer at Riverside Community Hospital. “This distinction highlights our commitment to training the physicians of tomorrow through our robust Graduate Medical Education programs. Through expert faculty, state-of-art training equipment, and matching with some of the brightest new physicians year after year, we are proud of our impact to medicine in this community.” 

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.