‘Iowans are lucky to have a well known and nationally revered tutorial well being system proper right here in our state’
IOWA CITY — For the primary time in a number of years, the College of Iowa’s Well being Care operation has made features within the oft-touted U.S. Information & World Report “finest hospital” rankings, with the 2024-25 version launched this week.
The UIHC Medical Middle within the new rankings positioned within the Prime 50 nationally in three grownup specialties — up from two final yr and two in 2022, marking the hospital’s weakest displaying in not less than a decade after sliding from 9 ranked specialties in each 2012 and 2014.
Within the 2024-25 rankings, UIHC held regular at No. 6 nationally for ophthalmology; elevated from No. 28 final yr and No. 31 in 2022 to a brand new No. 14 in ear, nostril, and throat; and regained its nationally-ranked standing for most cancers care at No. 41.
The final time UIHC ranked within the Prime 50 for most cancers was in 2021, when it positioned No. 47. Its new rating regains its most cancers standing from 2020, when it reached No. 41.
UIHC, per the brand new rankings, maintained its long-held standing as the highest hospital in Iowa. It additionally maintained “high-performing” standing in 5 grownup specialties: cardiology, coronary heart, and vascular surgical procedure; gastroenterology and GI surgical procedure; orthopedics; pulmonology and lung surgical procedure; and urology.
Cardiology is new this yr to UIHC’s “high-performing” listing — which credit high-quality specialty suppliers that don’t make the Prime 50 however nonetheless are within the prime 10 %.
Numbers of evaluated hospitals fluctuate by specialty — relying on what number of are eligible for rating primarily based on the variety of circumstances they see. Most cancers, for instance, had 39 high-performing hospitals — along with the Prime 50 — and 797 that have been eligible to be scored however didn’t rank or attain high-performing standing.
“This nationwide recognition is a testomony to the compassionate, high-quality care our groups present, in addition to UI Well being Care’s distinctive worth to the state,” UI Vice President for Medical Affairs and UI Carver School of Medication Dean Denise Jamieson mentioned in a press release. “Our group members are passionately devoted to advancing well being care throughout Iowa and past by means of medical care, analysis, and coaching.
“Iowans are lucky to have a well known and nationally revered tutorial well being system proper right here in our state, so we might be there for them after they want us most.”
U.S. Information this yr evaluated knowledge from almost 5,000 hospitals to rank eligible medical facilities in 15 specialties for advanced grownup care — primarily based on affected person outcomes and different measures, like affected person satisfaction scores, affected person security, superior know-how, nursing high quality, and certification.
In three specialties — psychiatry, rheumatology, and ophthalmology, during which UIHC is ranked — U.S. Information took a extra subjective measure by asking 1000’s of board-certified physicians the place they refer their sickest sufferers.
Though an enchancment from 2023 and 2022, UIHC’s three ranked specialties this yr stays under its rank tally in yearly between 2012, when it ranked in 9 specialties, and 2021, when it ranked in 4.
The UI Stead Household Kids’s Hospital — though not newly ranked this week — is ranked in six of 10 specialties.
U.S. Information & World Report’s finest hospitals honor roll for 2024-25
The Greatest Hospitals Honor Roll acknowledges 20 hospitals with “uncommon competence, considering the total vary of grownup inpatient care.”
The dignity roll just isn’t ordered. Right here is the alphabetical listing:
- Brigham and Girls’s Hospital, Boston
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Middle, Los Angeles
- Cleveland Clinic
- Duke College Hospital, Durham, North Carolina
- Hospitals of the College of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia
- Houston Methodist Hospital
- Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
- Massachusetts Basic Hospital, Boston
- Mayo Clinic-Arizona, Phoenix
- Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
- Mount Sinai Hospital, New York Metropolis
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, New York Metropolis
- North Shore College Hospital at Northwell Well being, Manhasset, New York
- Northwestern Medication-Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
- NYU Langone Hospitals, New York Metropolis
- Rush College Medical Middle, Chicago
- Stanford Well being Care-Stanford Hospital, Stanford, California
- UC San Diego Well being-La Jolla and Hillcrest Hospitals, San Diego
- UCLA Medical Middle, Los Angeles
- UCSF Well being-UCSF Medical Middle, San Francisco
Supply: U.S. Information & World Report
Vanessa Miller covers greater training for The Gazette.
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