Stanford Hospital Once Again Ranked One of America’s Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report
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Stanford Health Care’s renowned Stanford Hospital has once again been ranked one of the nation’s best hospitals by earning national top tier rankings in 12 of 16 medical specialties for 2014-15. The magazine also ranked Stanford Hospital as one of the top two hospitals in California and the best in its metropolitan area.
“It is gratifying for Stanford to once again be recognized by for delivering the highest levels of patient care excellence,” said Amir Dan Rubin, President and CEO, Stanford Health Care. “At Stanford Health Care we seek to deliver the leading edge of care with the highest levels of coordination and compassion, to each and every patient we have the privilege to serve,” said Rubin.
For 2014-15, evaluated hospitals in 16 adult specialties and ranked the top 50 in most of the specialties. Just 3 percent of the nearly 5,000 hospitals that were analyzed for Best Hospitals 2014-15 earned national ranking in even one specialty. Stanford was ranked among the nation’s very best hospitals in: cancer; cardiology & heart surgery; ear, nose & throat; gastroenterology & GI surgery; geriatrics; gynecology; nephrology; neurology & neurosurgery; orthopaedics; pulmonology; rheumatology; and urology.
The Best Hospitals survey also ranks America’s children’s hospitals and their programs. In June, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford received the highest specialty rankings of any children’s hospital in Northern California
“The latest rankings are yet another validation of the outstanding patient care provided by our highly skilled and deeply compassionate Stanford Medicine faculty and trainees,” said Lloyd Minor, MD, the Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine. “At Stanford, we are leading the biomedical revolution and every day we strive to push past the current boundaries of medicine toward our vision of transforming patient care.”
The rankings are available at and will appear in the U.S. News “Best Hospitals 2015” guidebook, available in August.
Stanford Health Care seeks to heal humanity through science and compassion, one patient at a time, through its commitment to care, educate, and discover. Stanford Health Care delivers the benefits of breakthrough innovation with highest levels of care and compassion across its hospital, specialty health centers, physician offices, virtual care services, and health maintenance programs. Stanford Health Care, which is part of Stanford Medicine along with Stanford Children’s Health and the Stanford University School of Medicine, is widely recognized for breakthroughs in treating cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, and surgical and medical conditions.
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