The U-M Hospitals and Health Centers (UMHHC) have been ranked among the country’s best hospitals, placing 14th overall for the second consecutive year by U.S. News & World Report magazine. This year, U-M was ranked in every specialty and those rankings went up in 11 of the 16 specialties.
The results, released online July 15, mark the 16th year in a row that U-M has been named to the honor roll of “America’s Best Hospitals.”
U-M is the only hospital in Michigan ranked among the 14 institutions on the national honor roll, which signifies all-around excellence in multiple areas of specialized medical care.
U.S. News ranks each of these specialties individually, and U-M earned a high national ranking in all 16 categories. In all cases, U-M was the highest-ranked hospital in Michigan for each specific treatment area. Of the 4,852 hospitals considered for the rankings, only 152 made the list in even one specialty.
“We are pleased to be nationally recognized in so many areas as a result of the hard work of our faculty and staff,” says Doug Strong, director and chief executive officer of UMHHC. “It is our wide-ranging strength in so many specialties that keeps us high on the list year after year.”
In one category — ear, nose and throat diseases — U-M made the top 10 in the country, ranking ninth.
In 14 other U-M specialties, the university ranked in the top 20 nationwide. These include the specialty care of ear, nose and throat diseases (ranked 9th); urology (ranked 11th); geriatrics (ranked 12th) and gastrointestinal disorders (ranked 13th).
Also recognized was the specialty care at the Comprehensive Cancer Center (ranked 13th), the Cardiovascular Center (ranked 11th) and the Kellogg Eye Center’s ophthalmologic care (ranked 17th).
U.S. News determines the “America’s Best Hospitals” rankings based on hospital reputation in particular specialties, and, for all but four specialties, on mortality rates and a mix of care-related factors such as nursing and patient services. Rankings in Ophthalmology, Psychiatry, Rehabilitation and Rheumatology are determined by reputation among board-certified specialists.
UMHHC is part of the U-M Health System, which also has been recognized by U.S. News as having one of the nation’s top medical schools and top children’s hospitals.
U.S. News’ 2010-11 publication of “America’s Best Hospitals” will be on sale at newsstands on July 27. The rankings also are available online at health.USNews.com.
