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 DukeMed Alumni News
Fall 2007
In Brief:
Duke Ranks 7th on "America's Best Hospitals" Honor Roll
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For the 18th year in a row, Duke University Hospital has been named as one of the top 10 U.S. hospitals in the annual U.S.News & World Report Honor Roll of “America’s Best Hospitals.”
Duke came in at seventh place, the same ranking it received in 2006.
Duke Hospital ranked highly in 15 of the specialties measured, with top-10 rankings in 10 of them.
Duke is the only hospital in North Carolina ranked in the top 10.
All of the 18 medical centers named as the best this year had to demonstrate a breadth of excellence by achieving a high ranking in no fewer than six of the 16 specialties, according to the magazine.
The top 10 hospitals in the rankings were, respectively: Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Mayo Clinic, UCLA Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Duke, UCSF, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
For more information about the U.S.News & World Report rankings,
visit www.usnews.com/besthospitals.
How Duke ranks by Specialty:
Gynecology #4
Geriatrics #5
Orthopedics #6
Digestive Disorders #7
Ophthalmology #7
Heart/Heart Surgery #8
Cancer #9
Kidney Disease #9
Urology #9
Respiratory Disease #10
Psychiatry #13
Rheumatology #13
Ear, Nose, Throat #20
Neurology and Neurosurgery #23
Endocrinology #26
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