U.S. News ranks UWMC among nation's best hospitals
July 13, 2005
The UW Medical Center (UWMC) received a ninth-place ranking in U.S. News and World Report's "America's Best Hospitals" guide, placing it in the top 1 percent of all U.S. hospitals.
The UWMC placed ninth in the magazine's rankings last year, and 10th in 2003.
Ed Walker, medical director of the UWMC, said each hospital was evaluated based on its resources and facilities, its process of delivering care and its overall success in treating patients.
"This isn't just a beauty contest," Walker said. "The process is an endorsement by national physicians. The fact that this has happened so many years in a row means people are identifying us as leaders in the nation in terms of health care delivery."
The rankings largely reflect the quality and cohesiveness of UW Medicine's staff and faculty, Walker added.
"No individual doctor, no individual nurse could win this award on [his/her] own without pulling together as a team," he said.
The UWMC also had 11 of its specialty centers place among the country's top 20, with the highest honors going to its third-ranked rehabilitation clinic and its orthopedics center, which placed ninth. The number of high-ranked specialty centers earned the UWMC a spot on the report's honor roll, led by Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
The full 2005 U.S. News and World Report "America's Best Hospitals" rankings can be found at www.usnews.com/usnews/health/best-hospitals/tophosp.htm.
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