Loyola Named to Newsweek's 2019 List of World's Best Hospitals
April 15, 2019MAYWOOD, IL – Newsweek magazine has 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.
One thousand hospitals were selected worldwide based on three measures:
Recommendations from Peers
In an online survey, tens of thousands of doctors, nurses, hospital managers and other healthcare professionals were asked to recommend hospitals in their own country and other countries. Survey participants could not recommend their own hospitals.
Patient Experience
Data from existing patient surveys were collected. Samples of survey topics include general satisfaction with hospital, satisfaction with medical care and satisfaction with service.
Medical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Examples of KPIs include data on quality of care for specific treatments, hygiene measures, patient safety and nurse-to-patient ratios.
"The hospitals on this list are at the forefront of adapting to new challenges while providing top-notch patient care," Newsweek said. Newsweek partnered with Statista Inc., a global market research and consumer data company, to develop the World's Best Hospitals list.
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.
For five years in a row, Loyola has been named to Becker’s Hospital Review's list of "100 Great Hospitals in America." Loyola's nationally ranked specialties, level 1 trauma center, transplant program, Burn Center and 20-bed unit for patients undergoing stem cell transplants were among the reasons listed for inclusion on the 2018 list. The "stellar reputation" of Loyola's orthopaedics program and a tenfold increase in total and partial shoulder replacements were also highlighted.
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).