Erlanger was named “Best Hospital by Metro Area” and ranked as one of the top six hospitals in Tennessee.
Erlanger was also the only local hospital to be recognized for high performing specialties, including neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, urology, diabetes and endocrinology, pulmonology, gastroenterology and nephrology.
The report also recognizes Dr. Louis Lambiase, with Erlanger’s academic gastroenterology practice, as among the top one percent of gastroenterologists in the nation.
“As the region’s only academic teaching hospital and level one trauma center, we are extremely pleased to have earned this national recognition from U.S. News and World Report once again,” said Erlanger president and CEO, Charlesetta Woodard-Thompson. “What is particularly gratifying is that Erlanger’s efforts and growing reputation in stroke treatment enabled us to earn an additional high performance specialty rating in neurology and neurosurgery.”
“This latest rating is a real testament to the hard work and intense commitment of our medical staff and employees to improve the lives of those in our community,” said Dr. James Creel, Erlanger’s chief medical officer. “It is confirmation that the Erlanger team does indeed practice what we teach.”
In making the announcement, U.S. News and World Report rankings editor Avery Comarow said, “All of these hospitals are the kinds of medical centers that should be on your list when you need the best care. They are where other hospitals send the toughest cases.”
The 23rd edition of U.S. News and World Report showcases 732 of the nation’s 5,000 hospitals. This year, more weight was given to data that is publicly available and less subjective, such as information collected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
According to publication officials, the new methodology “gives hospitals with solid clinical data more opportunity to show consumers how well they perform, and hospital reputation still counts.”
Other criteria used in the U.S. News and World Report ratings include patient survival, infection rates, patient safety measures, nurse-to-patient ratios and responses from medical specialists to opinion surveys. Highlights of the newest rankings will appear in U.S. News Best Hospitals 2013 guidebook, on sale in August. Complete rankings and methodology are available at health.usnews.com/best-hospitals.
If you need Erlanger be sure to stay on the staff about hand washing and that includes the doctors there who think they are God's. And don't let them get by with staff who argues about who does what with the patience. Don't do like I did and try just to get along with everyone because your loved one is gravely ill.
Complain if things are not going the way you feel they should. Go to someone other that floor supervisors. I wish I had went to the CEO of Erlanger. And remember that in Tennessee you only have 1 year to file a suit. We found that out to late.