Cleveland Clinic Ranks as
One of the Four Best Hospitals in America;
Cancer Care Earns a Place Among Nation's Top 10
7/15/10
For the 16th consecutive year, Cleveland Clinic's heart
program has ranked as the best in the nation, earning the
No. 1 ranking in U.S. News & World Report's "2010-11 Best
Hospitals."
Cleveland Clinic again placed among the
nation's best hospitals overall, ranking 4th in the country.
For the first time, the hospital's cancer program moved into
the Top 10 with a No. 9 ranking, joining 13 other Cleveland
Clinic specialties ranked in the Top 10.
The complete "2010-11 Best Hospitals"
rankings for Cleveland Clinic are:
"We are proud of this acknowledgement, which reflects the
high quality healthcare that Cleveland Clinic is committed
to providing patients," said Delos M. "Toby" Cosgrove, M.D.,
President and CEO, Cleveland Clinic. "It's the result of the
dedication of our medical staff and employees to our
principles of cooperation, compassion and innovation."
Among Cleveland Clinic's highly ranked
programs, eight placed in the Top 5 and four – heart,
gastroenterology, urology, and rheumatology – placed among
the Top 2. Cleveland Clinic earned the highest ranking of
any Ohio hospital in 15 categories.
Since 1994, no hospital in the country has
ranked higher than Cleveland Clinic in cardiac care.
"It's truly a great honor to be ranked No. 1
in the country for 16 straight years," said Bruce Lytle,
M.D., chairman, Cleveland Clinic Heart & Vascular Institute.
"We are inspired every day by the trust and confidence that
our patients place in us to deliver the best care possible
and to offer patients with the most complex problems the
best possible choices."
Cleveland Clinic's cancer care moved up
three spots this year to No. 9 in the country, due in part
to the recruitment of the top clinicians and researchers in
the world, publishing clinical outcomes, and focusing on
comprehensive patient support programs.
"It is an honor for the entire Taussig team
to be recognized as one of the top 10 cancer centers in the
nation, but more importantly, it is good news for patients
in the region to have easy access to world-class care," said
Derek Raghavan, M.D., Ph.D., chairman, Cleveland Clinic
Taussig Cancer Institute. "Along with our research
reputation and publications on cancer advancements, these
rankings are an important measure of the quality of our
care."
Two additional Cleveland Clinic hospitals
were ranked on the prestigious list this year:
• Cleveland Clinic Florida: gastroenterology 17, diabetes
and endocrinology 40.
• Lutheran Hospital: neurology and neurosurgery 42.
Thousands of hospitals were assessed by U.S.
News. Only 152 scored high enough to be ranked in even one
category. Of those, just 14 -- including Cleveland Clinic --
qualified for the Honor Roll. Rankings are based on death
rates, procedure volume, and the balance of nurses and
patients, except in four specialties – ophthalmology,
psychiatry, rehabilitation, and rheumatology – in which
hospitals were ranked on reputation alone.
"2010-11 Best Hospitals" will be available
on Thursday, July 15, at
www.usnews.com/besthospitals and in the August edition
of U.S. News, on newsstands July 27.
Broadcast quality video of the Cleveland Clinic campus,
heart surgery, Taussig Cancer Institute and cardiac rehab is
available to media outlets at
ftp://139.137.221.100/ (User Name: dailyvosots;
Password: dailyvosotsftp) The file – available in a standard
quality MPEG2 format (265 MB) and a high quality Quicktime
Movie .mov format (941 MB) – is labeled "CLEVELAND CLINIC
2010 B-ROLL."
About Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland Clinic, located in Cleveland,
Ohio, is a not-for-profit multispecialty academic medical
center that integrates clinical and hospital care with
research and education. It was founded in 1921 by four
renowned physicians with a vision of providing outstanding
patient care based upon the principles of cooperation,
compassion and innovation. U.S. News & World Report
consistently names Cleveland Clinic as one of the nation's
best hospitals in its annual "America's Best Hospitals"
survey. About 2,100 full-time salaried physicians and
researchers and 11,000 nurses represent 120 medical
specialties and subspecialties. In addition to its main
campus, Cleveland Clinic operates nine regional hospitals
and 15 Family Health Centers in Northeast Ohio, Cleveland
Clinic Florida, the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las
Vegas, Cleveland Clinic Canada, and opening in 2012,
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. In 2009, there were more than
4.6 million visits throughout the Cleveland Clinic health
system and 170,000 hospital admissions. Patients came for
treatment from every state and from more than 100 countries.
Visit us at
http://www.clevelandclinic.org/.
