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HealthGrades names best hospitals in emergency care
The best hospitals in emergency care are concentrated in Chicago, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Cleveland, Phoenix, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Detroit, according to a new report from HealthGrades released
Top cities for hospital care not where you think
A new list from HealthGrades indicates that the best quality hospital care occurs at some smaller cities that beat out major cities, with Baltimore ranking as number one in the nation. The other
Infamous Prime Healthcare among top health systems list
Thomson Reuters on Wednesday released its annual list of top health systems in system-wide clinical performance. Singling out 15 health systems out of more than 300 organizations, California-based
Big, teaching hospitals missing from Joint Commission top-performers list
Although the Joint Commission's top-performers list honored 405 hospitals for successfully delivering evidence-based care, it also served as a warning to larger hospitals and academic medical
Hospital rankings, mortality rates based on chance, study says
Although more prominent around the time new top-hospitals lists come out, skeptics about hospital rankings again rear their heads. A new study published this week in Pediatrics finds that reported
Behind the numbers: Best hospital list released, skepticism ensues
U.S. News World Report today released its "Best Hospitals" list for 2011-2012 but may face the usual skeptics of such quality lists. Many of the best hospitals on the list were concentrated in New
Birth complications dramatically lower at top ranked hospitals, study concludes
Approximately 176,700 women could have avoided developing one or more major obstetric complications in a hospital between 2006 and 2008, if their hospital had performed as well as the best hospitals
Hospital rankings by U.S. News & World Report rely on reputation rather than quality, safety
The highly touted " Best hospitals " list published annually by U.S. News & World Report places too much stock on a hospital's reputation and too little on such subjective criteria as quality of
HealthGrades' 'top hospitals' save substantially more lives
Fifty top hospitals received HealthGrades' stamp of approval after undergoing a demanding analysis of their mortality rates and the number of complications their patients experience after any one of
