Fourteen hospitals and health systems were named elite choice oncology centers by patients and providers.
WebMD and Medscape partnered to give patient choice and provider choice awards to hospitals for specific specialties. The awards were based on surveys on hospital preferences. Read the survey methodology here.
WebMD gave Elite Choice Awards to hospitals and systems that were preferred by patients and physicians 2 to 1 over competitors for a specialty in their local region. Hospitals in the oncology category offered treatment for blood, breast, colorectal, lung, prostate and skin cancers.
Here are the 14 hospitals and systems that received the WebMD Elite Choice awards:
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston)
Johns Hopkins Health System (Baltimore)
Indiana University Health (Indianapolis)
Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.)
MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston)
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York City)
Moffitt Cancer Center (Tampa)
Ochsner Health System (New Orleans)
Oregon Health & Science University Hospital (Portland)
Penn Medicine (Philadelphia)
UCHealth (Aurora, Colo.)
University of Utah Health (Salt Lake City)
UPMC Presbyterian (Pittsburgh)
Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health System