Loyola Named to Becker's Hospital Review's 2019 List of '100 Great Hospitals in America'

MAYWOOD, IL – For the sixth year in a row, Loyola University Medical Center has been named to Becker’s Hospital Review's list of "100 Great Hospitals in America".

Becker's said hospitals included in the new 2019 list "have been recognized nationally for excellence in clinical care, patient outcomes and staff and physician satisfaction. These institutions are industry leaders that have achieved advanced accreditation and certification in several specialties."

Becker's selected hospitals based on an analysis of ranking and award agencies, including U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals rankings, CMS star ratings, Leapfrog patient safety grades and IBM Watson Health top hospitals. Becker's also sought nominations for the list.

"We are honored to once again be named to Becker's great hospitals list," said Shawn P. Vincent, president and CEO of Loyola Medicine. "Being consistently named to the Becker's list is recognition of the national reputation Loyola Medicine has earned for the compassionate, high-quality care we provide for our patients."

Two other respected publications also have named Loyola to their top hospitals lists.

In U.S. News & World Report's 2018-19 Best Hospitals rankings, Loyola ranks among the top three Illinois hospitals (among 200 in the state) and has six nationally ranked specialties. Loyola's six nationally ranked specialties are Cardiology & Heart Surgery (27th), Urology (31st), Orthopaedics (36th), Gastroenterology & GI Surgery (37th), Neurology & Neurosurgery, (37th) and Pulmonology (49th). Three Loyola specialties are high performing: Cancer, Geriatrics and Nephrology.

Newsweek magazine named Loyola University Medical Center to its 2019 list of the World's Best Hospitals. Loyola ranks 49th among the 250 U.S. hospitals on the World's Best Hospitals list.