U.S. News & World Report Recognizes Loyola Medicine Hospitals

MAYWOOD, IL – Loyola Medicine hospitals have been recognized by U.S. News & World Report in the magazine's 2022-2023 Best Hospitals rankings. Once again, Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC) has been ranked among the top 10 hospitals in the state of Illinois, as it has been since U.S. News hospital rankings began in 2013. This year, LUMC has been ranked 6th in the state. In addition, LUMC has two nationally ranked specialties and is recognized as “high performing” in five specialties and eleven conditions and procedures.

Loyola is ranked as one of the best hospitals in the country in two specialty categories Gastroenterology & GI Surgery (45th) and Ear, Nose & Throat (48th). U.S News also recognized five Loyola specialties as high performing: Cardiology & Heart Surgery, Geriatrics, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Orthopaedics, and Pulmonary & 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.

All three Loyola Medicine hospitals were rated high performing in a variety of adult procedure and condition categories. Loyola University Medical Center was rated high performing in eleven adult procedure and condition categories: aortic valve surgery, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), colon cancer surgery, diabetes, heart attack, heart bypass surgery, heart failure, kidney failure, lung cancer surgery, pneumonia and stroke. Gottlieb Memorial Hospital was also rated high performing in COPD, while MacNeal Hospital was rated high performing in COPD and Stroke. Hospitals named high performing in these areas performed significantly better than the national average.

"We are proud to see Loyola recognized once again by U.S. News & World Report as one of the top hospitals in Illinois. It is gratifying to receive national rankings and continued recognition for our high performance in vital specialties and procedures," said Shawn P. Vincent, president and CEO of Loyola Medicine. "The rankings reflect our continued clinical excellence as well as our commitment to quality care and patient safety."

For the 2022-2023 rankings and ratings, U.S. News evaluated more than 4,500 medical centers nationwide in 15 specialties and 20 procedures and conditions. In the 15 specialty areas, only 164 hospitals were ranked in at least one specialty. In rankings by state and metro area, U.S. News recognized hospitals as high performing across multiple areas of care.

U.S. News evaluated each hospital’s performance using a variety of measures such as survival rates, complication rates, patient experience and level of nursing care. The Best Hospitals methodology factors in data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, American Hospital Association, professional organizations and medical specialists.