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The 2008 “Best Hospitals” issue of U.S. News & World Report has ranked the University of Chicago Medical Center as 17th out of America’s 5,453 hospitals and has featured it in the magazine’s elite list of “Honor Roll” hospitals. The University of Chicago Medical Center – the only Illinois hospital ever included in the “Honor Roll” – has appeared on this esteemed list 11 times since 1995.
Seven programs, digestive disorders (#6) endocrinology (#11), cancer (#18), neurology and neurosurgery (#19), heart and heart surgery (#20), kidney disease (#22), and ear, nose and throat (#22) were ranked in the top 25 nationwide. Geriatrics (#29), respiratory (#32) and gynecology (#34) also scored in the top 35.
According to U.S.News, out of the more than 5,000 hospitals evaluated, only 170 met that standard in one or more specialties. Most that did are referral centers, which are accustomed to seeing the toughest patients and conducting bench-to-bedside research that advances the state of the art.
“Talent and money alone don’t put hospitals in the rankings,” said Best Hospitals editor Avery Comarow. “The truly best hospitals are never satisfied,” he said. “Of course they have high medical standards. But the emphasis is not only on doing well, but always doing better--squeezing another few percentage points out of the infection rate, improving the quality of life of elderly patients besides helping more of them survive.”
In its 2008 annual survey of children's hospitals, U.S.News & World Report selected the University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital as one of the best in the United States. The 2008 America's Best Children's Hospitals listing names the 30 top-ranked hospitals in general pediatrics and six specialties. Comer ranked 20th in the country for neonatal care (the care of critically ill or very premature newborns).
Additionally, in March, the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine was ranked 16th in the U.S.News & World Report "Best Graduate Schools" issue. |
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