Johns Hopkins Tops U.S. News’ Annual Rankings
This week, U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of America’s Best Hospitals hit the newsstands. Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore topped the Honor Roll list (high scores in six or more specialties), followed by Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA; Cleveland Clinic in OH; Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA (a CHD Pebble Project partner); and 14 others.
The rankings are based on several factors: 1) reputational survey (random sample of 200 physicians for each of the 16 specialties); 2) mortality index (Medicare data); and information on other care related factors (mostly from the American Hospital Association’s member survey).
I’m happy to report that two of our other Pebble Project partners also ranked in the top 10 of several specialty areas: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston (pictured below) is #1 in Cancer and #4 in Ear, Nose & Throat, and #9 in Urology; St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital also in Houston is #7 in Heart & Heart Surgery.
As I scrolled through the list looking for Pebble Project partners, I was pleased to see many hospitals whose names I recognized as being published in Healthcare Design magazine’s annual Architectural Review issue or recipients of CHD’s annual Healthcare Environment Awards. So, although facility design is not a factor in the rankings (see my blog post from July 23, 2007), many are recognizing that excellence in medical care is related to excellence in facility design.