Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox was named to the Fortune/IBM Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals list.

This is the ninth time Silver Cross has been recognized with this honor as one of the top-performing hospitals in the U.S. The annual list was published Monday by Fortune.

IBM Watson Health identified the top hospitals from a rigorous evaluation of 2,675 short-term, acute care, nonfederal hospitals in the U.S. The annual list recognizes excellence in clinical outcomes, operational efficiency, patient experience and financial health. IBM Watson Health established the list to help identify best practices that may help other health care organizations achieve consistent, balanced and sustainable high performance.

This year’s ranking of top hospitals also introduces a measure of hospitals’ contributions to community health with a focus on equity developed by a team of experts at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity and the Bloomberg American Health Initiative at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. For the ranking, hospitals were surveyed across three components: assessing hospital contributions to community health as a provider of critical services for community health and preventive care, identifying ways that hospitals contribute to community health as a community partner teaming up with local organizations to implement critical programs, and focusing on ways that hospitals promote community health through their practices as anchor institutions supporting local economic and social progress.

“At Silver Cross, we’re committed to delivering an unrivaled health care experience for every patient, every time,” President and CEO Ruth Colby said. “To be nationally recognized for the work we do on a daily basis is extraordinary and a true credit to our inspiring team of caregivers. We’re humbled to be recognized as one of the nation’s best hospitals for the ninth time and the second year running, but we won’t rest on this accomplishment. In true Silver Cross fashion, we’ll keep advancing to be even better for our patients and our community.”

According to IBM Watson Health, as compared to similar hospitals, the hospitals included on the 100 Top Hospitals list had better results on key clinical and operational performance indicators. These include survival rates, patient complications, health care-associated infections, 30-day mortality and 30-day hospitalwide readmission rates, length of stay, throughput in emergency departments, inpatient expenses, profitability and ratings from patients.