U.S. News & World Report Recognizes Loyola Medicine Hospitals
July 25, 2022
Categories: Loyola Medicine, Awards & Recognitions
Tags: Cancer, Otolaryngology ENT, Pulmonology Critical Care, Surgical Services, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Digestive Health, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, Heart Vascular, Loyola University Medical Center, MacNeal Hospital, Neurology Neurosurgery, Orthopaedics
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.
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).