UMC Ranks Among America's Best Hospitals
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University Medical Center is again ranked among the nation's premier hospitals in U.S. News & World Report's annual guide to "America’s Best Hospitals."
University Medical Center, the primary teaching hospital of The University of Arizona colleges of medicine, nursing and pharmacy, is again ranked among the nation’s premier hospitals in U.S. News & World Report’s annual guide to “America’s Best Hospitals.”
This year UMC is ranked among the top 50 hospitals in the United States in five of the 16 medical specialties the magazine surveyed:
- Heart and Heart Surgery
- Respiratory Disorders
- Geriatrics
- Kidney Disease
- Ear, Nose and Throat
“University Medical Center receives this recognition because of the people who strive every day to make a difference – the physicians, scientists, the nurses, the entire staff. UMC is honored by their dedication and their expertise," said Greg Pivirotto, UMC's president and CEO.
“Talent and money alone don’t put hospitals in the rankings,” said “America’s Best Hospitals” editor Avery Comarow. “The truly best hospitals are never satisfied. Of course they have high medical standards. But the emphasis is not only on doing well, but always doing better – squeezing another few percentage points out of the infection rate, improving the quality of life of elderly patients besides helping more of them survive.”
According to U.S. News, the rankings in 12 of the 16 specialties weigh three elements equally: reputation, death rate and a set of care-related factors such as nursing and patient services. In these 12 specialties, hospitals have to pass through several gates to be ranked and considered a "best hospital":
The first gate determines whether a hospital is eligible to be ranked at all by requiring that any of three conditions be met – to be a teaching hospital, to be affiliated with a teaching hospital or to have at least six important medical technologies from a defined list of 13.
The second gate determines whether a hospital is eligible to be ranked in a particular specialty. To be eligible, the hospital had to either have at least a specified volume in certain procedures and conditions over three years, or to have been nominated in a yearly specialist survey.
The third gate is whether a hospital does well enough to be ranked, based on its reputation, death rate, and factors like nurse staffing and technology.
UMC opened in 1971 and also is affiliated with the Centers of Excellence at the Arizona Health Sciences Center, including the Arizona Respiratory Center, the Arizona Center on Aging, the Arizona Arthritis Center, the UA Sarver Heart Center, the Steele Children’s Research Center and the Arizona Cancer Center, among others. UMC operates the only Level 1 trauma center in southern Arizona and is the future home of the Diamond Children’s Medical Center, now under construction and scheduled to open in 2010.
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