Inside Duke Medicine
DUH Ranks among Top 10 Best U.S. hospitals
posted July 16th, 2009
DUH was ranked among the top 10 best hospitals in America in U.S. News & World Report's annual best hospital edition.
The outstanding work of physician faculty, nurses, technologists and all staff throughout Duke University Hospital has again been recognized with the naming of DUH among the top 10 best hospitals in America in U.S. News & World Report's annual best hospital edition.
In the latest report, DUH tied for 10th place overall, and ranked among the top 10 in eight of the 16 specialties measured.
“The ranking is a wonderful credit to the continued outstanding teamwork of all the people of Duke University Hospital,” said Kevin Sowers, the hospital’s CEO. “The daily efforts of each person to put the patient at the center our organization and to continually seek ways to improve add up collectively to what Duke Hospital is and what is recognized with these rankings.”
Among specialties, DUH ranked fourth in gynecology, fifth in geriatrics, sixth in orthopaedics, sixth in respiratory disease/pulmonary, sixth in urology, seventh in ophthalmology, eighth in heart and heart surgery, ninth in cancer, 11th in kidney disorders, 13th in psychiatry, 17th in digestive disorders, 18th in neurology and neurosurgery and 22nd in diabetes and endocrine disorders.
The hospital has appeared in the U.S. News rankings for 20 years. DUH is the only hospital in North Carolina and the Southeast ranked among the top 10 in the country.
All of the 21 medical centers named as the part of the honor roll 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 U.S. News & World Report's rankings were, respectively: Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Mayo Clinic, UCLA Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, New York-Presbyterian University Hospital, University of California-San Francisco, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Duke University Medical Center.