St. Vincent's Ranks Among the Best U.S. News & World Report Cites Hospital for Heart and Heart Surgery
Posted on: Tuesday, 26 July 2005, 12:01 CDT
U.S. News & World Report named St. Vincent's Medical Center among America's Best Hospitals in the category of Heart and Heart Surgery, according to its 2005 rankings.
The Riverside hospital, which employs about 3,500, was ranked 37 and is the only Jacksonville hospital and one of just three facilities statewide recognized this year for work in any of the 17 specialties ranked by the weekly magazine.
Making the list serves as motivation, St. Vincent's spokeswoman Pamela Rittenhouse said.
"We're proud, and it'll just be another motivator for everybody here to raise the bar even more -- to just keep getting better," Rittenhouse said.
This is the second time in three years St. Vincent's has been ranked among the nation's top heart hospitals -- the hospital was ranked 35 in 2003 but did not make last year's list.
The other Florida hospitals named are Shands at the University of Florida, Gainesville and Sarasota Memorial Hospital. Shands Gainesville was ranked in nine categories including respiratory disease, gynecology and geriatrics. Sarasota Memorial was recognized in seven categories including orthopedics, urology and cancer.
This is the 16th annual edition of the publication's report, "America's Best Hospitals," in which top medical centers are ranked. The hospital issue hits newsstands Monday.
The "America's Best Hospitals" ratings, in 17 specialties from cancer and heart disease to pediatrics and urology, include 176 different medical centers and are culled from 6,007 hospitals across the country.
In its report explaining the methodology used, U.S. News describes the named medical centers as an elite group that become referral centers in particular specialties because their physicians see sicker patients and do greater numbers of tough procedures. Physicians at ranked centers follow and often pioneer advanced treatment guidelines.
To be considered in a particular specialty, a hospital had to perform a minimum number of specified procedures on Medicare patients in 2001, 2002, and 2003 -- at least 1,270 procedures for heart and heart surgery, for example.
St. Vincent's claims to be home to the largest cardiovascular program between Atlanta and Orlando, performing approximately 20,000 cardiovascular procedures each year -- including diagnostic and non- invasive testing services, outpatient treatments, interventional procedures and surgeries. Last year, more than 5,200 cardiac catheterizations and 700 open-heart surgeries were performed for patients at St. Vincent's.urvaksh.karkaria@jacksonville.com, (904) 359-4367
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Source: Florida Times Union
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