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| Washington Hospital Center Named One Of 'America's Best Hospitals' for Heart and Kidney Disease July 7, 2006 |
WashingtonDC - July 7, 2006 - Enhancing its reputation as one of the nation's leading cardiology programs, Washington Hospital Center has been named one of 'America's Top Hospitals' for its internationally respected heart and heart surgery programs by U.S. News & World Report. The Hospital Center ranked 18th of the 50 leading hospital-based cardiac programs named in the magazine's annual survey; that is the highest rating of any hospital in the immediate Washington metropolitan area. U.S.News also selected the Hospital Center's kidney disease program as one of the nation's 50 best for kidney disease. The Hospital Center is one of only 176 hospitals to be ranked in one or more of the 16 medical specialty categories in the 'America's Best Hospitals' survey. That represents three percent of 5,189 hospitals that were evaluated nationwide. The hospitals were judged on three equally weighted factors - reputation, mortality rate, and patient care-related factors including nursing and patient services. The 50 hospitals with the highest scores in each specialty are listed. A sampling of board-certified doctors in each specialty was randomly selected from the American Medical Association's master list of 860,000 physicians nationwide. U.S. News randomly polled 200 doctors per specialty who were asked to list the five hospitals they considered best in their specialty for difficult cases. The mail survey also asked that the decision be made without consideration of cost or location. Nearly 47 percent of the 3,200 doctors contacted responded to this year's survey. The magazine has assessed hospitals in the United States for the past 17 years. Contact: Paula Faria 202 877-7594 paula.faria@medstar.net |
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