It’s happened again. U.S. News & World Report has named Nebraska Medicine – Nebraska Medical Center the state’s top hospital. The annual U.S. News Best Hospitals rankings, now in their 26th year, recognize hospitals that excel in treating the most challenging patients.
In rankings by state and metro area, U.S. News recognized hospitals that perform nearly at the level of their nationally-ranked peers in one or more specialties, as well as hospitals that excel in multiple common procedures and conditions.
In addition to being the state’s top ranked hospital, Nebraska Medicine’s nephrology and urology programs ranked 43rd and 44th, respectively.
“It’s very rewarding for everyone at Nebraska Medicine to receive this kind of recognition,” said Lisa Runco, executive director of Cardiology and Digestive Disease and Kidney. “It really speaks to the quality of care provided across our entire system.”
U.S. News publishes Best Hospitals to help guide patients who need a high level of care because they may face a particularly difficult surgery, a challenging condition or extra risk because of age or multiple health problems. Objective measures such as patient survival and safety data, adequacy of nurse staffing and other data largely determined the rankings in most specialties.
The specialty rankings and data were produced for U.S. News by RTI International, a leading research organization based in Research Triangle Park, N.C. U.S. News used the same data, as well as the new Best Hospitals for Common Care ratings, first published in May, to produce the state and metro rankings.
The rankings are available here and will appear in the U.S. News “Best Hospitals 2016” guidebook available in August.