The 2003 Index of Hospital Quality

2003 Ear, Nose, and Throat Best Hospital List
Hospitalwide Technology
U.S. News Reputational mortality R.N.'s score Trauma
Rank Hospital Index score rate Discharges to beds (of 5) Center
1 Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore 100.0 52.1 0.74 285 1.76 5.0 Yes
2 Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston 72.8 32.1 0.12 309 2.02 3.0 Yes
3 University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City 70.0 31.3 0.85 247 1.35 5.0 Yes
4 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. 60.6 24.6 0.79 668 1.51 5.0 No
5 University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor 55.7 18.5 0.74 297 1.87 5.0 Yes
6 UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles 50.8 16.6 0.89 349 1.94 5.0 Yes
7 University of Pittsburgh Medical Center 50.4 16.7 0.88 343 1.52 5.0 Yes
8 Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 47.5 15.6 1.01 281 1.79 5.0 Yes
9 Cleveland Clinic 47.3 13.3 0.67 232 2.12 5.0 No
10 University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 47.0 19.1 1.11 128 2.97 5.0 No
11 Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis 43.8 11.3 0.84 421 1.46 5.0 Yes
12 Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville 43.0 11.5 0.95 279 2.24 5.0 Yes
13 Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, Calif. 42.7 14.3 0.89 162 1.56 3.0 No
14 University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle 41.5 11.1 0.72 120 1.38 5.0 No
15 University of California, San Francisco Medical Center 40.8 10.9 0.83 157 2.02 5.0 No (+3 SD)
16 Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York 37.5 9.6 1.13 458 1.68 5.0 Yes
17 University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville 35.9 5.9 0.88 198 2.25 5.0 Yes
18 Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York 35.7 6.1 0.84 283 2.32 5.0 No
19 Shands at the University of Florida, Gainesville 34.9 4.2 0.79 255 1.62 4.0 Yes
20 University Hospital, Cincinnati 34.8 5.2 0.80 172 1.16 5.0 Yes
21 Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. 33.8 5.2 0.92 161 2.55 5.0 Yes
22 Methodist Hospital, Houston 33.7 6.0 0.88 215 1.33 5.0 No (+2 SD)
23 Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago 32.9 3.5 0.92 262 1.87 5.0 Yes
24 University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento 32.7 3.6 0.85 157 2.97 5.0 Yes
25 University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison 32.4 2.0 0.68 207 1.05 5.0 Yes
26 Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas 32.1 4.5 0.87 59 1.72 5.0 Yes
27 Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus 32.0 4.3 0.74 102 0.98 3.5 Yes
28 F.G. McGaw Hospital at Loyola University, Maywood, Ill. 32.0 1.7 0.79 217 1.72 5.0 Yes
29 Fairview-University Medical Center, Minneapolis 31.9 3.3 0.68 376 0.50 5.0 No
30 University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Hospital 31.8 3.4 0.82 226 1.53 5.0 No
31 University of Chicago Hospitals 31.7 2.7 0.80 111 1.86 5.0 Yes
32 Summa Health System, Akron, Ohio 31.7 0.0 0.62 239 2.21 5.0 Yes
33 North Carolina Baptist Hospital, Winston-Salem 31.5 3.6 0.95 191 1.68 5.0 Yes
34 University Hospitals of Cleveland 31.4 0.6 0.67 171 1.84 5.0 Yes
35 Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit 31.4 0.3 0.71 230 1.79 4.5 Yes
36 Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia 31.3 2.3 0.85 258 1.62 4.0 Yes
37 University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill 31.2 2.9 0.90 183 1.64 5.0 Yes
38 University of Alabama Hospital at Birmingham 30.9 3.0 0.97 314 1.45 5.0 Yes
39 Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis 30.7 0.0 0.66 374 1.24 5.0 Yes
40 Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn. 30.4 1.1 0.83 262 1.43 5.0 Yes
41 William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Mich. 30.4 0.0 0.77 292 1.75 5.0 Yes
42 Lahey Clinic, Burlington, Mass. 30.2 1.1 0.58 142 1.46 4.0 Yes
43 University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago 29.9 3.3 0.83 112 1.72 2.5 Yes
44 Akron General Medical Center, Akron, Ohio 29.8 0.0 0.73 199 1.34 5.0 Yes
45 New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, New York 29.5 1.6 0.00 44 2.47 3.5 Yes
46 University of Colorado Hospital, Denver 29.5 0.4 0.65 68 2.25 5.0 Yes
47 Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, Ill. 29.4 0.0 0.62 242 0.94 4.0 Yes
48 Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago 29.3 1.4 0.67 161 1.18 5.0 No
49 Hospital of St. Raphael, New Haven, Conn. 29.3 0.0 0.72 250 0.88 4.5 Yes
50 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston 29.3 0.3 0.80 210 2.23 4.0 Yes