Health Care

Thursday, July 16, 2009, 11:56am EDT

Six S. Fla. hospitals receive top rankings

South Florida Business Journal - by Brian Bandell

Six South Florida hospitals were ranked in U.S. News and World Report’s America’s Best Hospitals issue, which was unveiled Thursday.

The magazine examined 4,861 hospitals using health outcomes and patient satisfaction data. Only 174 hospitals surveyed were ranked in the 16 specialties.

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The University of Miami’s Bascom Palmer Eye Institute was named the top ophthalmology hospital in the nation for the sixth year in a row.

“These annual rankings recognize the exceptional quality of the clinical care we provide to our patients every day,” UM Miller School of Medicine Dean Dr. Pascal J. Goldschmidt said in a news release. “We are proud to be recognized for our world-class academic medicine.”

The magazine ranked UM/Jackson Memorial Hospital as the top hospital in Florida and 20th in the nation for ear, nose and throat treatment.

For geriatric care, Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach ranked 32nd nationwide and UM/Jackson ranked 35th.

Mount Sinai also was named the top hospital in Florida for neurology and neurosurgery, and ranked 33rd in the nation.

For gynecology, Cleveland Clinic Florida in Weston ranked 38th nationwide.

Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale was ranked 30th for orthopedics. Its sister facility, Mercy Hospital in Miami, was ranked 36th for respiratory disorders.

U.S. News and World Report ranked the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa as the top cancer hospital in Florida and No. 16 nationwide. No South Florida hospitals were ranked in the cancer specialty or in heart and heart surgery.

Shands Healthcare, affiliated with the University of Florida Health Science Center in Gainesville, was considered the best in the state and No. 24 in the nation.

Overall, the top-ranked U.S. hospitals were Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore; the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn.; Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, in Los Angeles; the Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland; and Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston.