Six Loyola Medicine Specialties Ranked in U.S. News & World Report's 2018-19 'Best Hospitals' Rankings
August 13, 2018MAYWOOD, IL – Loyola University Medical Center ranks among the top three Illinois hospitals (among 200 hospitals) and has six nationally ranked specialties in U.S. News & World Report's 2018-19 Best Hospitals rankings.
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.
U.S. News evaluated more than 4,500 hospitals nationwide. 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 percent in the nation.
Loyola also was rated high performing in aortic valve surgery, colon cancer surgery, heart bypass surgery and heart failure. Hospitals named high performing in these areas were significantly better than the national average.
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. For the 2018-19 rankings, only 158 hospitals of over 4,500 evaluated across the U.S. were ranked in at least one specialty area.
Complete ratings are available on the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals website.
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.
For more information, visit loyolamedicine.org. You can also follow Loyola Medicine on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram or X (formerly known as Twitter).
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).