Four Loyola Medicine Specialties Nationally Ranked by U.S. News & World Report in 2019/20 Rankings
July 29, 2019MAYWOOD, IL – Loyola University Medical Center has four nationally ranked specialties and is high performing in 10 other specialties, conditions and procedures in U.S. News & World Report's 2019-20 Best Hospitals rankings.
Loyola's nationally ranked specialties are Neurology and Neurosurgery (28th in the U.S.), Gastroenterology and GI Surgery (33rd), Cardiology and Heart Surgery (39th) and Urology (41st). Five Loyola specialties are high performing: Cancer, Geriatrics, Nephrology, Orthopaedics and Pulmonology and Lung Surgery.
To achieve a national ranking, a hospital must be ranked among the nation's top 50 hospitals in a given specialty. A high-performing specialty is among the top 10% in the nation.
U.S. News evaluated more than 4,600 hospitals nationwide, including more than 200 in Illinois. Loyola was ranked among the top five hospitals in Illinois.
Loyola also was rated high performing in five adult procedures and conditions: aortic valve surgery, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), colon cancer surgery, heart bypass surgery and heart failure. Hospitals named high performing in these areas were significantly better than the national average.
"We are pleased to again be recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the top hospitals in Illinois," said Shawn P. Vincent, president and CEO of Loyola Medicine. "These new rankings reflect our clinical excellence and continuing focus on quality care and patient safety."
U.S. News' Best Hospitals rankings assess hospital performance across 16 specialty areas based on an extensive data-driven analysis that looks at structural characteristics and processes of care, outcomes and mortality, patient safety, hospital reputation among physicians and number of patients treated within the specialty.
About Loyola Medicine
Loyola Medicine, a member of Trinity Health, is a nationally ranked academic, quaternary care system based in Chicago's western suburbs. The three-hospital system includes Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC), Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, MacNeal Hospital, as well as convenient locations offering primary care, specialty care and immediate care services from nearly 2,000 physicians throughout Cook, Will and DuPage counties. LUMC is a 547-licensed-bed hospital in Maywood that includes the William G. and Mary A. Ryan Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine, the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, the John L. Keeley, MD, Emergency Department, a Level 1 trauma center, Illinois's largest burn center, the Nancy W. Knowles Orthopaedic Institute, a certified comprehensive stroke center, transplant center and a children’s hospital. Having delivered compassionate care for over 50 years, Loyola also trains the next generation of caregivers through its academic affiliation with Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine and Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing.
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About Trinity Health
Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, faith-based health care systems in the nation. It is a family of 127,000 colleagues and more than 38,300 physicians and clinicians caring for diverse communities across 26 states. Nationally recognized for care and experience, the Trinity Health system includes 93 hospitals, 107 continuing care locations, the second largest PACE program in the country, 142 urgent care locations and many other health and well-being services. In fiscal year 2024, the Livonia, Michigan-based health system invested $1.3 billion in its communities in the form of charity care and other community benefit programs. For more information, visit us at www.trinity-health.org, or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and X (formerly known as Twitter).