LRG Boston Real Estate Blog » Do you know why Boston…..? https://www.lrgboston.com/blog Boston luxury real estate as it happens Sun, 23 Apr 2023 16:39:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Top Hospital Rankings – Two Boston, MA Hospitals In top 8 https://www.lrgboston.com/blog/b/2011/07/united-states-hospital-rankings-boston/ https://www.lrgboston.com/blog/b/2011/07/united-states-hospital-rankings-boston/#comments Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:24:48 +0000 admin http://www.lrgboston.com/blog/?p=1161 mghOut of the 5,000 hospitals that were evaluated, Boston, MA has two(2) (#2 Massachusetts General Hospital and #8 Brigham and Womens) in the top 8 of the newest 2011 poll conducted by RTI International.  Hospitals were ranked based on their expertise and “competance” across multiple specialties.

Rank Hospital Points Specialties
1 Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore 30 15
2 Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 29 15
3 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. 28 15
4 Cleveland Clinic 26 13
5 Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles 25 14
6 New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell, N.Y. 22 12
7 UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco 20 11
8 Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston 18 12
9 Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. 18 10
10 Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 17 12
11 Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis 16 11
12 UPMC-University of Pittsburgh Medical Center 14 8
13 University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle 13 9
14 University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, Ann Arbor 10 6
14 Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville 10 6
16 Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York 8 6
17 Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, Calif. 7 6

 

*The rankings were produced for U.S. News by RTI International, a leading research organization based in Research Triangle Park, N.C. Be sure to add your own fact-gathering to ours; no hospital is best for every patient.

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Here, on the Luxury Residential Group Blog, we have decided to start a fun new series of blogs titled “Do you know why”? These will be tidbits of information on topics about Boston that a lot of us did not know.

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