Rankings and Ratings

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago has 288 beds, handled 10,997 admissions and hosted 4,926 inpatient and 13,342 outpatient surgeries in the last year reported. In fiscal year…

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago has 288 beds, handled 10,997 admissions and hosted 4,926 inpatient and 13,342 outpatient surgeries in the last year reported. In fiscal year…

Researchers from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University have developed a robotic surgical system capable of adjusting to the specific needs of soft tissue to execute precise and consistent suturing.

The Joint Commission recently announced a lift to its ban on secure texting among clinicians. This is big news for healthcare as the earlier ban prohibited texting between providers due to security concerns.

Abbott Northwestern Hospital, part of Allina Health (Minneapolis). Abbott Northwestern’s roots date back to 1882, when Northwestern Hospital opened in a rented house. Dr. Amos Abbott served as a consulting physician to Northwestern’s first medical staff, but 20 years later…

The global cost associated with dengue fever is substantial, according to recent research from the Schneider Institutes for Health Policy at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass.

New research shows patients with vision loss who are admitted to the hospital for common disorders experience longer hospital stays, higher readmission rates and higher post-discharge emergency department utilization rates than non-visually impaired patients.

NYU Langone Medical Center (New York City). NYU Langone is an academic medical center located in Manhattan that includes flagship facility Tisch Hospital, as well as Rusk Rehabilitation, Hospital for Joint Diseases and Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital. Collectively, the medical center…

The Leapfrog Group has published its 2016 Maternity Care Repot, which shows hospitals have improved episiotomy and early elective delivery rates, but many organizations are still falling short of national performance targets for maternal care quality metrics.

Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago). Northwestern Memorial Hospital is the primary teaching hospital of the Chicago-based Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. The hospital has 894 beds and more than 1,600 affiliated physicians and 7,000 employees. Northwestern Memorial also includes the…