Mass General and Brigham and Women’s rank among best hospitals in the country
New England Council members Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital were ranked as some of the best hospitals in the country. The rankings were announced by U.S. News which bases its ranking system on data collected from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, American Hospital Association, and other medical professionals.
U.S. News decides the rankings by focusing on data measuring a hospital’s patient survival rate, complication rates, patient experience, level of nursing care and how successfully each hospital helps patients return home. Mass General took eighth place and Brigham and Women’s placed fourteenth. The publication also ranked individual specialties provided by the hospitals. Brigham and Women’s took first in the nation for obstetrics and gynecology and fifth for rheumatology. Mass General placed second for diabetes and endocrinology and third for psychiatry.
Ben Harder, Chief of Health Analysis and Managing Editor for U.S. News, explained how patients can benefit from these rankings, “[f]or patients considering their options for where to get care, the Best Hospitals rankings are designed to help them, and their medical professionals identify hospitals that excel in the kind of care they may need.”
The New England Council congratulates both Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital for the continued efforts to provide excellent healthcare to the people of New England.
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