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The website considered more than 4,500 medical centers nationwide and honed in on 15 specialties, and 17 procedures and conditions.
"The Best Hospitals procedure and condition ratings focus on specific and more commonly required individual procedures and conditions, such as hip replacement and heart failure, rather than on broader specialties like orthopedics and cardiology," U.S. News explains.
"The goal is to evaluate how well hospitals perform in each procedure or condition – and not just with the most difficult cases, as with the specialty rankings, but with the full range of patients."
Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania - Penn Presbyterian in Philadelphia topped the list at No. 1.
The remaining top 10 is ranked as follows:
- 2) UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside - Pittsburgh, PA
- 3) Jefferson Health - Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals - Philadelphia, PA
- 4) Lancaster General Hospital - Lancaster, PA
- 5) Lehigh Valley Hospital - Allentown, PA
- 6) Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center - Hershey, PA
- 7) UPMC Pinnacle - Harrisburg, PA
- 8) Reading Hospital - West Reading, PA
- 9) St. Luke's University Hospital - Bethlehem Campus - Bethlehem, PA
- 10) Lankenau Medical Center - Wynnewood, PA
Click here for the complete list from U.S. News.
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