The Hospital Where I Work Made the Top U.S. Hospital List

July 22nd, 2007
Posted in Wellness |

The U.S. News & World Report  magazine considered 5,462 U.S. hospitals for their annual list of top hospitals.  The hospital where I work - New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell in New York came out #6.  Impressive!! Only 18 hospitals made the list.

Here is the magazine’s “honor roll” list of America’s best hospitals. Hospitals that received the same rank are listed together.

  1. Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore
  2. Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
  3. UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles
  4. Cleveland Clinic
  5. Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston
  6. New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell in New York
  7. Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., and University of California, San Francisco Medical Center
  8. Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University in St. Louis
  9. Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston
  10. University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle
  11. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
  12. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
  13. University of Michigan Hospitals and Centers in Ann Arbor, Mich.
  14. Stanford Hospital and Clinics in Stanford, Calif., and Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Conn.
  15. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and the University of Chicago Medical Center

For more details on the ranking system of the hospitals, check out the U.S. News & World Report July 23-30 issue, 2007.

 Hope I never see any of you there (as a patient)….but if you have to go to a hospital, it is a good place to be!


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