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Abbott Northwestern and Mercy Hospitals Ranked Among America's Best HospitalsMINNEAPOLIS and COON RAPIDS, Minn 07/17/2002--Congratulations to Abbott Northwestern Hospital and to Mercy Hospital for being ranked among America's best hospitals in U.S. News & World Report. The magazine ranked the nation's top 205 hospitals and medical centers, which they whittled down from 6,045, in 17 specialties.
According to U.S. News & World Report, ranked hospitals tend to adhere more closely to advanced treatment guidelines, to incorporate new findings into patient care, and to conduct research that gives desperately ill patients more options. In 13 of the 17 specialties ranked, a hospital had to meet one of three standards to be considered: membership in the Council of Teaching Hospitals, affiliation with a medical school, or availability of at least nine of 17 specified items of medical technology. In each specialty, a hospital must perform a given number of procedures or had to be cited by at least one physician in the past three years of U.S. News Surveys. Hospitals then receive a score that equally weighs reputation, mortality and a group of care-related factors such as nursing. U.S. News & World Report cautions that while these rankings should not be taken as the final word, they offer a good place to start the search for the level of care you or loved one deserve when it is most needed. Surveys have been done by the magazine for 13 years. For more information, visit www.usnews.com. # # # Related Links |