UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside

UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside
UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside in Pittsburgh, PA is ranked nationally in 13 adult specialties. It was also high-performing in 1 adult specialty. UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside is a 1,517-bed general medical and surgical facility with 65,956 admissions in the most recent year reported. It performed 49,190 annual inpatient and 24,956 outpatient surgeries. Its emergency room had 122,036 visits. UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside is a teaching hospital. A world-renowned health care provider and insurer, Pittsburgh-based UPMC is inventing new models of accountable, cost-effective, patient-centered care. It provides more than $888 million a year in benefits to its communities, including more care to the region’s most vulnerable citizens than any other health care institution. An enterprises division. A passion for innovation lies at the heart of UPMC’s success. UPMC’s unique strategy of combining clinical and research excellence with business-like discipline translates into high-quality patient care for both western Pennsylvanians and the global community.

Provider Services, which includes a comprehensive array of tertiary, community, and regional hospitals; specialty service lines, such as transplantation, women's health, behavioral health, pediatrics, UPMC Cancer Centers, and rehabilitation; in-home care and retirement living options; contract services, including pharmacy and clinical laboratories; and nearly 3,400 employed physicians and associated practices. Insurance Services, which offers health insurance to companies and their employees, as well as recipients of government programs such as Medicare and Medical Assistance; integrated workers' compensation and disability services; and coverage for behavioral health services to Medical Assistance beneficiaries in 35 Pennsylvania counties. UPMC International, which exports UPMC's medical expertise and management know-how internationally. UPMC Enterprises?, which pursues commercialization opportunities and develops strategic partnerships with industry leaders.

Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital

Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital
Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital in Stanford, CA is ranked nationally in 13 adult specialties. It was also high-performing in 1 adult specialty. Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital is a 481-bed general medical and surgical facility with 25,164 admissions in the most recent year reported. Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital is a teaching hospital. St Stanford Health Care, we seek to provide patients with the very best in diagnosis and treatment, with outstanding quality, compassion and coordination. With an unmatched track record of scientific discovery, technological innovation and translational medicine, Stanford Medicine physicians are pioneering leading edge therapies today that will change the way health care is delivered tomorrow.

As part of our spirit of discovery, we also leverage our deep relationships with luminary Silicon Valley companies to develop new ways to deliver preeminent patient care. Stanford Health Care is creating new delivery models, leveraging our advanced resources to create seamless continuity of care for every patient. From our suite of virtual care services – to our primary care offices throughout the Bay Area, outpatient clinics in Redwood City and Palo Alto, and our future Stanford South Bay Cancer Center – people from around the region and around the world turn to Stanford Health Care for comprehensive solutions to meet all of their health care needs. At the center of our health system will be the most advanced hospital in the world. The new Stanford Hospital will make our bold vision for compassionate, coordinated, leading edge care – personalized for the unique needs of every patient – a reality for more people than ever before.

Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University

Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University
Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center is the largest hospital in Missouri and the largest private employer in the St. Louis region. An affiliated teaching hospital of  Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital has a 1,800 member medical staff with many who are recognized as "Best Doctors in America." They are supported by residents, interns and fellows, in addition to nurses, technicians and other health-care professionals. Recognizing its excellent nursing care, Barnes-Jewish Hospital was the first adult hospital in Missouri to be certified as a "Magnet Hospital" by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). The Magnet Award is the highest honor awarded for hospital nursing by the ANCC.
Barnes-Jewish Hospital was created by the 1996 merger of Barnes Hospital and The Jewish Hospital of St. Louis. Each hospital brought a rich tradition of excellence. Barnes Hospital opened in 1914 and became one of the first medical teaching centers in the United States. Jewish Hospital opened in 1902 to care for St. Louis’ growing immigrant population. Barnes-Jewish Hospital is a member of BJC HealthCare, one of the nation’s largest health-care organizations. The Barnes-Jewish and Washington University Heart & Vascular Center has pioneered many procedures, from ablation therapies to valve repair and replacement, and permanent implantation of ventricular assist devices. Our patients have been among the first to benefit from advanced angioplasty techniques, coronary bypass procedures, valvuloplasty and heart transplantation. Barnes-Jewish Hospital has the only comprehensive transplant center in the region offering heart, heart & lung, lung, double lung, kidney, liver, pancreas islet cell and bone marrow transplants. In addition to achieving outcomes that meet or beat national averages, the transplant program is known for quality and continuity of care.

New York-Presbyterian University Hospital

New York-Presbyterian University Hospital
NewYork-Presbyterian is one of the nation’s most comprehensive academic health care delivery systems, dedicated to providing the highest quality, most compassionate care to patients in the New York metropolitan area and throughout the globe. In collaboration with two renowned medical schools, Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, NewYork-Presbyterian is consistently recognized as a leader in medical education, ground-breaking research and innovative, patient-centered clinical care.
NewYork-Presbyterian is one of the largest health care providers in the U.S.  Each year, nearly 29,000 NewYork-Presbyterian professionals deliver exceptional care to more than 2 million patients. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is a world class academic medical center ranked #1 in the New York metropolitan area by U.S. News and World Report and repeatedly named to the Honor Roll of Best Hospitals in the nation. Save lives. Inspire innovations. Spark research, and make breakthroughs. Excel for your patients. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital represents the beating heart of the medical world. Research and foresight is a critical dimension of advancing care. Our clinical curiosity, and everything it achieves, exists for the benefit of the patient. For those in our care, we push the boundaries of what’s possible and incorporate best-practice findings. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is ranked #6 on this year's InformationWeek Elite 100, a list of top business technology innovators in the U.S, and is the only hospital in the top 10. The Hospital was specifically recognized for use of an innovative patient tablet, designed to empower patients and their providers and improve the quality of health care delivery with the latest technology.

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston

Brigham and Women's Hospital, BostonBoston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) is an international leader in virtually every area of medicine and has been the site of pioneering breakthroughs that have improved lives around the world. A major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, BWH has a legacy of excellence that continues to grow year after year. Brigham and Women’s Health Care – the parent corporation for Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital and the Brigham and Women’s Physician Organization – includes 150 outpatient practices with over 1,200 physicians. We serve patients from New England, throughout the United States, and from 120 countries around the world.
BWH is an internationally-known referral center for the most complex cases in nearly all areas of medicine. In fact, U.S. News and World Report consistently ranks us among the nation’s top 10 hospitals and in the top 10 for specific specialty areas that in 2015 include cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes and endocrinology, geriatrics, gynecology, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology, and rheumatology. As a national leader in improving health care quality and safety, we have helped to develop some of the industry’s best practices including computerized physician order entry (CPOE) to prevent medication errors. The CPOE is now a nationally-accepted safety practice. BWH is a training ground for physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals. We have 1,100 trainees in over 140 of the most sought after training programs in the world, and also host Harvard Medical School students in rotations throughout our programs. As our global health services expand, our clinical trainees have rich opportunities to contribute and learn in challenging environments around the world.

NYU Langone Medical Center, New York

NYU Langone Medical Center, New York
NYU Langone Medical Center is one of the nation’s premier academic medical centers. Our trifold mission to serve, teach, and discover is achieved daily through an integrated academic culture devoted to excellence in patient care, education, and research. For the third consecutive year, we’re proud to score No. 1 in quality and safety among participating members in the University HealthSystem Consortium Quality and Accountability Study. Specialists at NYU Langone treat a full range of medical conditions in both inpatient and outpatient settings at locations throughout New York City’s five boroughs, Long Island, New Jersey, and Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess counties.
Our growing outpatient network brings our world-class medical services directly to the communities where our patients live and work. When more complex care is needed, we bridge the gap between our community-based practices and our hospitals to provide a seamless healthcare experience.
Each year, we are recognized for providing outstanding care. In 2013, 2014, and 2015, NYU Langone was ranked number 1 for overall patient safety and quality among leading academic medical centers that were included in the University HealthSystem Consortium Quality and Accountability study. We also received The Gold Seal of Approval® by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of healthcare organizations in America, reflecting a commitment to high-quality patient care. Our exceptional physicians are named on Castle Connolly’s “America’s Top Doctors” and New York magazine’s “Best Doctors” annual listings. Our nurses are also recognized for excellence in the care they provide, receiving Magnet® status for the third consecutive time by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Magnet® status is an honor achieved by only 7 percent of hospitals in the United States.

Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago

Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
Northwestern Medicine is the shared strategic vision of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine to transform the future of healthcare and become one of the nation’s premier destinations for patient care. Each day, 26,500 clinical and administrative staff, medical and science faculty and medical students come together with a shared commitment to superior quality, academic excellence, scientific discovery and patient safety.
Northwestern Medicine has a national reputation for excellence and long history of collaborative, interdisciplinary medical education and research. In 2015, it was ranked 19th among the nation’s top research-intensive schools of medicine by U.S. News & World Report, and 18th in National Institutes of Health funding. More than 3,400 faculty members teach, practice medicine, conduct research at the medical school, and its academic portfolio includes full-time MD, MD-PhD, Physical Therapy and Physician Assistant programs, graduate medical education and continuing medical education. In affiliation with the member hospitals of the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University, the school offers 27 fully approved residency programs and dozens of advanced-level fellowships. During the 2015-2016 academic year, the school served 638 medical students, 879 PhD students and research fellows, 647 master’s and professional program students, and 1,135 residents and fellows. Last year, Northwestern Medicine scientists received $402.7 million in funding for research awards. Northwestern Memorial Hospital is an 894-bed academic medical center hospital that is the primary teaching affiliate for the Feinberg School of Medicine and has nearly 1,900 affiliated physicians representing virtually every medical specialty. The hospital is ranked No. 1 in Chicago and Illinois, as well as 11th in the nation according to the U.S. News & World Report 2015-2016 Honor Roll of America's Best Hospitals, which ranks the hospital in 13 out of 16 clinical specialties. Northwestern Memorial is recognized for providing exemplary patient care and innovative advancements in a variety of clinical areas including cardiovascular care; oncology; neurology and neurosurgery; solid organ and soft tissue transplants; orthopaedics; and women’s health.