America's Top 20 Hospitals: the 2009–10 Honor Roll (US New & World Report)

[CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight]

Colleagues,

As compiled each year by RTI International for the U.S. News and World Report, please see this year's top 20 ranked hospitals in the United States ... In this year's rankings a total of 4,861 hospitals were considered; hospitals were scored on reputation, death rate, patient safety, and care-related factors such as nursing and patient services; Johns Hopkins Hospital tops the list, as it has every year since 1991...

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

Read on at: http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/best-hospitals/2009/07/15/...


ENJOY!

CC