Top U.S. hospitals, 2005

U.S. News & World Report published its annual list of America’s “top” hospitals, featuring 176 hospitals that ranked high enough in at least one of the 17 medical specialties to make the grade. Among them, 16 hospitals earned “Honor Roll” status (shown below in bold type) by achieving top ratings in at least six specialties. Many of these facilities are also on the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s list of Magnet hospitals (shown below in red type), which are recognized for their excellence in nursing service. Only six hospitals turn up on both lists, as shown below in bold red type.

State Hospital State Hospital Alabama University of Alabama Hospital at Birmingham Georgia Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Arizona John C. Lincoln Health Network, Phoenix Emory University Hospital, Atlanta Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix St. Joseph’s Hospital of Atlanta St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix Shepherd Center, Atlanta University Medical Center, Tucson Illinois Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge Arkansas Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Little Rock Alexian Brothers Medical Center, Elk Grove Village California Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles Centegra Memorial Medical Center, Woodstock Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte Christ Hospital and Medical Center, Oak Lawn Doheny Eye Institute, USC University Hospital, Los Angeles F.G. McGaw Hospital at Loyola University, Maywood Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles Hinsdale Hospital Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, Palo Alto Ingalls Memorial Hospital, Harvey Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA, Los Angeles Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, Downey Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford Rush University Medical Center, Chicago UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles Rush-Copley Medical Center, Aurora UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Los Angeles University of Chicago Hospitals USC University Hospital, Los Angeles University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento Indiana Clarian Health Partners (IU, Riley, and Methodist Hospitals), University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Orange Indianapolis University of California, San Diego Medical Center La Porte Regional Health System University of California, San Francisco Medical Center Iowa University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City Colorado Children’s Hospital, Denver Kentucky Jewish Hospital, Louisville Craig Hospital, Englewood Louisiana Tulane University Hospital and Clinic, New Orleans Denver Health Maryland Francis Scott Key Medical Center, Baltimore National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver Greater Baltimore Medical Center Penrose-St. Francis Health Services, Colorado Springs Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore Poudre Valley Hospital, Fort Collins Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, Baltimore Rose Medical Center, Denver Sinai Hospital of Baltimore University of Colorado Hospital, Denver University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore Connecticut Hospital of St. Raphael, New Haven Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven Massachusetts Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge Delaware Christiana Care Health System, Wilmington Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston District of Children’s National Medical Center Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Columbia Georgetown University Hospital Children’s Hospital Boston National Rehabilitation Hospital Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston Washington Hospital Center Lahey Clinic, Burlington Florida Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston Florida Hospital, Orlando Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa McLean Hospital, Belmont Holy Cross Hospital, Fort Lauderdale New England Baptist Hospital, Boston Sarasota Memorial Hospital Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston Shands at the University of Florida, Gainesville St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Jacksonville Tampa General Hospital University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Hospital

18 TravelNursing2005 www.nursing2005.com State Hospital State Hospital Michigan Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Pennsylvania Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Harper University Hospital, Detroit Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit Community Medical Center, Scranton University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Minnesota Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis Philadelphia Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis Lancaster General Hospital Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown St. Cloud Hospital Magee Rehabilitation Hospital, Philadelphia University of Minnesota Medical Center, Minneapolis Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC, Pittsburgh Missouri Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, Moss Rehab, Philadelphia St. Louis St. Luke’s Hospital and Health Network, Bethlehem St. Louis Children’s Hospital Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia St. Louis University Hospital Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia New Hampshire Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon University of Pittsburgh Medical Center New Jersey Hackensack University Medical Center Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, West Orange South Carolina Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston New Mexico University Hospital, Albuquerque Tennessee St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis New York Bellevue Hospital Center, New York Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopedic Institute, New York Texas Baptist St. Anthony’s Health System, Amarillo Hospital for Special Surgery, New York Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation, Dallas Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, New York Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York Children’s Medial Center Dallas Montefiore Medical Center, New York Cullen Eye Institute, Methodist Hospital, Houston Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, New York Menninger Clinic, Houston New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Methodist Hospital, Houston Columbia and Cornell Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas NYU Medical Center, New York Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Rusk Institute, NYU Medical Center, New York Houston Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research, Houston North Carolina Duke University Medical Center, Durham University Health System, San Antonio University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston Wake Forest University, Baptist Medical Center, Utah LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City Winston-Salem University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics, Salt Lake City Ohio Akron General Medical Center Virginia Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, Norfolk Christ Hospital, Cincinnati University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville Community Health Partners Regional Health System, Lorain Washington Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle Fort Hamilton Hospital, Hamilton Harborview Medical Center, Seattle Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle Grandview Hospital and Medical Center, Dayton Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland West Virginia Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston Ohio State University Hospital, Columbus Wisconsin Aurora Sinai Medical Center, Milwaukee Ohio State University James Cancer Hospital, Columbus Froedtert Hospital, Milwaukee Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Cleveland St. Luke’s Medical Center, Milwaukee Riverside Methodist Hospital-Ohio Health, Columbus University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison St. Elizabeth Health Center, Youngstown Wausau Hospital Summa Health System, Akron The Cleveland Clinic Foundation KEY University Hospital, Cincinnati Bold = U.S. News & World Report’s “Honor Roll” University Hospitals of Cleveland Red = Magnet hospitals Oregon Health and Science University Hospital, Portland Bold red = Magnet hospitals on the “Honor Roll”

Source: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/health/best-hospitals/tophosp.htm and http://www.nursingworld.org/ancc/magnet/facilities.html.

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