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Just one Columbia-area hospital is ranked among the best in South Carolina in new ratings
By
Pelican Press,
in World News
U.S. News says its list of
each hospital’s performance using measures such as survival rates, complication rates, patient experience and level of nursing care. The report’s methodology factors in data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, ********* Hospital Association, professional organizations and medical specialists.According to U.S. News, it evaluated nearly 5,000 hospitals across 15 specialties and 20 procedures and conditions, and only 11% of those hospitals earned a Best Hospitals ranking.
“A ‘Best Hospital’ recognition empowers patients to seek out medical care from the best of the best to treat their illness or condition,” U.S. News & World Report Chief of Health Analysis and Managing Editor Ben ******* said in the release.
U.S. News advised readers
based on the rankings.About Lexington Medical Center
Lexington Medical Center treats nearly 100,000 patients each year at the emergency room, in addition to delivering more than 4,000 ******* and performing more than 25,000 surgeries per year.
The 607-bed hospital in West Columbia has more than 8,700 employees.
SOURCE: Lexington Medical Center
Hospital Ranking Methodology
The U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals methodology 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, ********* Hospital Association, professional organizations and medical specialists.
SOURCE: U.S. News & World Report
There are 15 specialties where the hospitals are ranked, and they include:
In the remaining three specialties — ophthalmology, psychiatry and rheumatology — ranking is determined entirely by expert opinion, based on responses from three years of surveys of physician specialists who were asked to name the hospitals to which they would be inclined to refer their sickest patients.
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