UCLA Health hospitals rank among nation’s best in survey

For example, Waterbury Hospital was “not … ranked in any of the adult specialties, and yet they did perform very well” in hip and knee replacements – “better than 90 percent of the hospitals in the country”, Harder said.

CLEVELAND, Ohio- For the 21st year in a row, the Cleveland Clinic’s heart care program has ranked No. 1 on U.S. News & World Report’s annual list of best hospitals.

“The latest U.S. News rankings confirm what our patients already know-that the care offered by Stanford Medicine’s highly skilled and deeply compassionate faculty and trainees is among the very best in the nation”, said Lloyd Minor, MD, dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids rounded out the top 5, tying for #4. That adds up to almost 40 million hospitalizations per year. Like all other ratings systems, he said, it is not ideal but could be a good way to spur patients to raise the right questions.

UC San Diego Health – which also includes Thornton Hospital, the Moores Cancer Center, the Shiley Eye Institute and Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center – was ranked sixth in pulmonology; 18th in geriatrics; 20th in nephrology; 22nd in neurology and neurosurgery; 23rd in cancer treatment; 24th for cardiology and heart surgery, and also for gastroenterology and GI surgery; 25th for urology; 31st for both orthopedics, and diabetes and endocrinology; 33rd for ear, nose & throat; and 44th for gynecology. That is what our methodology for the specialty rankings has always been created to do.

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt scored among the top 50 in the country for many specialties, according to U.S. News. Sixteen of those medical centers were chosen for an honor roll that featured Massachusetts General Hospital in the top spot, followed by Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic and a tie between Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and UCLA Medical Center for third.

“We are extremely pleased to again see Stanford recognized by U.S. News for delivering the highest levels of patient care excellence”, said Amir Dan Rubin, president & CEO, Stanford Health Care.

[Photos: The Honor Roll of Best Hospitals 2015-16.].

In fact, most patients face relatively common ailments and may be served equally well or better by a hospital that makes treating patients like them its bread and butter. It is still important, he said, for people to seek out the opinions of their primary care physicians and others in the community who may have recently been admitted for hospital care.