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UPMC hospital ranked 12th best U.S. News' list puts Presby in upper echelon Friday, July 09, 1999 By Anita Srikameswaran, Post-Gazette Staff Writer
For the first time, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has reached the top grouping in a list of the best hospitals that is compiled annually by a national magazine.
In U.S. News and World Report's issue on "America's Best Hospitals," UPMC Presbyterian ranked 12th of 188 hospitals across the country. Because of its excellence across many medical specialties, the hospital joined an honor roll of 13.
Johns Hopkins in Baltimore led the field, as it had for the previous eight years, followed by the Mayo Clinic and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Officials at UPMC were delighted to have broken into the upper echelon.
"In recent years, the National Institutes of Health has consistently ranked UPMC among the top 12 research centers in the country as measured by peer-reviewed funding for research," said Jeffrey Romoff, the health system's president. The magazine's ranking "proves that our patient care is of equal excellence."
The survey was developed in 1990 in conjunction with the National Opinion Research Center, a University of Chicago-based social science research group. Rankings were developed using information about each hospital's reputation in the medical community, its death rate and data about services such as nursing care. The report also listed the top 50 hospitals in each of 16 specialties.
Presbyterian was among the best 50 in 12 of those categories. In cancer, respiratory disorders, geriatrics, psychiatry and several other specialties, it placed in the top 20. It ranked fifth in the care of ear, nose and throat problems.
The report has in previous years acknowledged the hospital's expertise in those specialties. However, Presbyterian did not make the final 50 in urology, as it did last year.
Allegheny General Hospital was among the top 50 in treatment of digestive tract disorders, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, urology and other categories, just as it was last year.
Western Pennsylvania Hospital ranked 38th in the treatment of hormonal disorders such as diabetes.
For the ninth year, Children's Hospital was among the top 10 pediatric centers. This time, it placed seventh.
The magazine's full report will be on newsstands Monday. The information is also available today on the Web at www.usnews.com.
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