Marietta, Ga.-based WellStar Kennestone Hospital received the Joint Commission Gold Seal Disease-Specific Certification for heart valve, coronary artery bypass surgery and congestive heart failure.
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Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center (Winston-Salem, N.C.). Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is a 1,004-bed integrated system that includes the Davie Medical Center locations in Bermuda Run and Mocksville, N.C., and the not-for-profit Lexington (N.C.) Medical Center. The medical center…
Loyola University Medical Center (Maywood, Ill.). The 547-bed Loyola University Medical Center includes a Level I trauma center, burn center, transplant center and a 20-bed unit for patients undergoing stem cell transplant. Formerly known as the Foster G. McGaw Hospital,…
Nearly 2,000 children ranging from newborns to 17-year-olds received organ transplants in 2015, and nearly 2,000 children are still on the waitlist, according to HHS' information on organ donation and transplantation.
Nationwide Children’s Hospital (Columbus, Ohio). Nationwide Children’s Hospital opened in 1892 with nine beds and has grown to serve about 1.2 million patients annually today. The hospital’s research institute ranks among the top 10 for National Institutes of Health funding…
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Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston). Ranked No. 1 among Massachusetts hospitals and No. 3 in the country by U.S. News & World Report for 2016-17, Mass General was the original Harvard Medical School teaching hospital. Founded in 1811, the 999-bed medical…
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford (Palo Alto, Calif.). The children’s hospital opened in 1991, serving as Stanford Children’s Health main entity. The 302-bed hospital offers pediatric and obstetric services within six centers of excellence: brain and behavior; cancer; heart; pregnancy…
The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore). The hospital opened in 1889 with 220 beds, growing to more than a dozen mini-hospitals and centers in present day. Johns Hopkins Hospital is a Level I trauma center that encompasses 37 buildings, 1,145 beds…
Houston Methodist Hospital. Houston Methodist Hospital is the flagship hospital of Houston Methodist, which includes six community hospitals. The hospital has six multidisciplinary centers of excellence and 2,165 operating beds. U.S. News & World Report ranked Houston Methodist Hospital No.…
Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center. Founded in 1888, HackensackUMC is a nonprofit teaching and research hospital with 775 beds. Ranked as the No. 1 New Jersey hospital by U.S. News & World Reports for 2016-17, the medical center encompasses the…