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| U.S. News & World Report Ranks Union Memorial Among the Nation’s Best Hospitals |
| Originally posted 07/19/2011 |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Debra Schindler
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Debra.Schindler@Medstar.net
U.S. News & World Report Ranks Union Memorial Among the Nation’s Best Hospitals
Identified As Third in the Baltimore Metro Area
Baltimore, Maryland – July 19, 2011 – Union Memorial Hospital has for a seventh year, been named one of the nation’s best hospitals by U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals 2011-12, based on national rankings in three categories and identified as the third best hospital in the Baltimore metro area.
Union Memorial was among 140 facilities—fewer than 3 percent of the 4,825 analyzed for the latest Best Hospitals rankings—to be ranked in even one of the 16 specialties. It’s been identified as the 33rd best hospital for Cardiology & Heart Surgery, 34th in Orthopedics and 50th in Diabetes and Endocrinology.
To be ranked in its metro area, a hospital had to score in the top 25 percent among its peers in at least one of 16 medical specialties.
The report, published for a 22nd year, added something new this year: top physicians. Eleven of Union Memorial’s physicians made the prestigious list; three were identified to be in the top one percent in the nation, in their specialty. They are Dr. Frank Criado, vascular surgeon, Dr. Richard Heitmiller, thoracic surgeon and Dr. Neal Zimmerman, hand surgeon.
US News & World Report also identified Union Memorial Hospital as a high-performing hospital in Cancer, Ear Nose and Throat, Gastroenterology, Geriatrics, Nephrology, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Pulmonology, Urology.
“I am as proud as I am honored to know the essence of what all of our associates do here, has surpassed the scrutiny of this survey, and ranked along with the two university giants of Baltimore,” said Union Memorial Hospital president, Bradley S. Chambers. “This type of recognition affirms the outstanding work of our entire team that gives its best to every patient, every day.”
The core mission of Best Hospitals is to help guide patients who need an especially high level of care because of a difficult surgery, a challenging condition, or added risk because of other health problems or age. “These are referral centers where other hospitals send their sickest patients,” said Avery Comarow, U.S. News Health Rankings Editor. “Hospitals like these are ones you or those close to you should consider when the stakes are high.”
Covering 94 metro areas in the U.S., the regional hospital rankings complement the national rankings by including hospitals with solid performance nearly at the level of nationally ranked institutions. The regional rankings are aimed primarily at consumers whose care may not demand the special expertise found only at a nationally ranked Best Hospital or who may not be willing or able to travel long distances for medical care. The U.S. News metro rankings give many such patients and their families more options of hospitals within their community and in their health insurance network.
“These are hospitals we call ‘high performers.’ They are fully capable of giving most patients first-rate care, even if they have serious conditions or need demanding procedures,” Comarow said. “Almost every major metro area has at least one of these hospitals.”
Hard numbers stand behind the rankings in most specialties—death rates, patient safety, procedure volume, and other objective data. Responses to a national survey, in which physicians were asked to name hospitals they consider best in their specialty for the toughest cases, also were factored in.
The rankings cover 16 medical specialties and all 94 metro areas that have at least 500,000 residents and at least one hospital that performed well enough to be ranked.
U.S. News Media & World Report’s 2011-12 Best Hospitals rankings, is available online at www.usnews.com/besthospitals.
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