U.S. News & World Report announces 2008 "best hospitals" list
Credentialing & Verification Update, July 30, 2008
U.S. News & World Report released its 2008 hospital rankings in its July 21-28, 2008 issue. The magazine graded hospitals in 16 specialties and selected only 170 out of 5,453 considered hospitals to rank. It used criteria including hard data, nominations, membership in the Council of Teaching Hospitals, affiliation with a medical school, and availability of at least six of 13 key technologies (e.g. robotic surgery).
The top ten hospitals to make the Honor Roll are:
- Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore)
- Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN)
- Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles)
- Cleveland Clinic
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- New York - Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell
- University of California, San Francisco Medical Center
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston)
- Duke University Medical Center (Durham, NC)
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
Read more or see the complete list of top hospitals.
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