Top 10 ranked USA hospitals - FYI

[cavalier]

Here are a few of the details: Reputation, which counted as 32.5 percent of the score, was based on three years of specialist surveys—a total of almost 10,000 physicians were asked to name five hospitals they consider among the best in their specialty for difficult cases, without taking into account cost or location. A mortality index, also 32.5 percent of the score, indicates a hospital's ability to keep patients with serious problems alive. Patient safety, new this year, made up 5 percent of the score; it indicates how well a hospital minimizes harm to patients. And a group of other care-related factors, such as nurse staffing and available technology, accounted for the remaining 30 percent.

Of the 174 hospitals that are ranked in one or more specialties, 21 qualified for the Honor Roll by earning high scores in at least six specialties. This demonstrates unusual breadth of excellence. Johns Hopkins Hospital tops the list, as it has every year from 1991 on. (The Mayo Clinic was No. 1 in 1990, Best Hospitals' first year.)

Hospitals are listed by total points. A hospital got 2 points if ranked at or close to the top in a specialty and 1 point if ranked slightly lower.

Rank Hospital Points Specialties

1 Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore 30 15
2 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. 28 15
3 Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles 26 15
4 Cleveland Clinic 26 13
5 Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 25 13
6 New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell 24 13
7 University of California, San Francisco Medical Center 21 11
8 Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19 12
9 Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis 17 12
10 Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston 17 10
10 Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. 17 10
12 University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle 16 8
13 UPMC-University of Pittsburgh Medical Center 13 8
14 University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, Ann Arbor 12 8
15 Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, Calif. 11 7
16 Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville 11 6
17 NYU Medical Center, New York 10 7
17 Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn. 10 7
19 Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York 9 7
20 Methodist Hospital, Houston 8 7
21 Ohio State University Hospital, Columbus 7 6

From - http://health.usnews.com/articles/he...onor-roll.html

Jill

[Harrison]

Thanks Jill, for posting this. I think the mortality index is interesting. I would love to see a similar benchmarking system for U.S. hospitals employing a "diagnostic index," that is, they would use a methodology that identifies the hospital ability to identify the problem, resolve the root cause and treat problem. It's OK to dream, right?!

I'll have to study the list, but it looks like few (if any) of these organizations have clinics that are offer joint diagnostics / repair centers. Maybe one of these caught your eye in terms of their TOS treatment capability? Dunno, just wondering. I think TOS is really specialized.

[cavalier]

As far as ADR Surgeries & other spine offerings - I noticed from the above list these #'s had those services to offer - 3,5,7,12, 13 , 17 & 17 the 2nd 17 being Yale. I think if one does a search they would find who the doc's are as many of them are known to the board. I think it is neat to see the better ranked hosptials with wide services as also have good spine specialists using their facilities.

In regard to TOS surgeries I didn't check some of them that are further away so they may have specialists these hospitals tended to have wider variety of specialists to begin with but I know #'s 2,9 & 20 have TOS specialists. I saw one of them at #9

Jill