Advocate Lutheran General Hospital (Park Ridge, Ill.). Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, a 638-bed nonprofit organization, is the sixth largest hospital in the Chicagoland area and a member of Advocate Health Care, Illinois’ largest health system. Advocate Lutheran General is a…
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The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (Columbus). OSU’s Wexner Medical Center’s origin dates back to 1834, to the founding of the Willoughby (Ohio) Medical Center of Lake Erie. After moving to Columbus in 1846 and several expansions and name…
The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore). The Johns Hopkins Hospital opened in 1889, four years before the university’s medical school. It was established at the bequest of its namesake, who was a successful Baltimore merchant. The hospital is the birthplace of…
The Christ Hospital (Cincinnati). The Christ Hospital can trace its roots back to 1889. That’s when Isabella Thoburn, a teacher, nurse, and missionary, came to Cincinnati and opened Christ’s Hospital, a 10-bed facility. Now part of The Christ Hospital Health…
Texas Children’s Hospital (Houston). When Texas Children’s Hospital opened its doors in 1954 after several years of planning, it was one of the most progressive pediatric-based hospitals at the time. Texas Children’s started as a three-story, 106-bed facility and has…
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Loyola University Medical Center (Maywood, Ill.). Founded in 1969, Loyola University Medical Center is a teaching hospital 13 miles west of downtown Chicago that is anchored by the Catholic Jesuit promise to not only treat illnesses, but the whole person…
iVantage Health Analytics has released the best American cities for healthcare as determined by its Hospital Strength INDEX, a rating system analyzing publicly available data to measure hospitals across ten pillars of performance and 66 metrics.
Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Truven Health Analytics has announced its 100 Top Hospital Award Winners for 2014.
Becker's Hospital Review's annual list of 100 Great Hospitals, sponsored by TeamHealth (888-741-7925) and Cejka Search (800-296-2698), will be published in May.
Here are the 50 largest public hospitals in America, listed by number of beds. Figures are based on CMS cost report data analyzed by American Hospital Directory. Data are for short term acute-care hospitals, critical access hospitals and children's hospitals.…