Posted on 03/02/2022 8:35:04 PM PST by BenLurkin
CLEVELAND (WJW)– Cleveland Clinic was ranked the No. 2 hospital in the world by Newsweek’s World’s Best Hospitals 2022 list.
The rankings were based on surveys from medical experts and patients, as well as data on patient safety and doctor-to-patient ratios. from more than 2,200 hospitals in 27 counties. The Mayo Clinic in Minnesota topped the list.
Cleveland Clinic previously topped Newsweek’s lists for cardiac surgery and was No. 2 for specialized care.
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Anybody on this site thinks differently?
These “surveys”.....too many variables,,,,and heavily skewed by past performances..
It’s like preseason college basketball rankings or pre March madness odds...highly unpredictable...
Congrats to these two fine hospitals.
If you have cancer, MD Anderson and Memorial Sloan-Kettering are the best. Some other cancer centers are very good, but if you have a rare cancer, these are the two go-to cancer centers.
I’ve been going to MD Anderson for the past 7½ years for metastatic prostate cancer. It the best
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Go Cleveland Clinic!
My ma and brother died there. ICU.. not too spotless. Other brother’s cardiac event was well attended to.
Haven’t lived in “the best location in the nation” for decades but am always proud. The city is facing rot, no doubt, but the people are solid.
They have excellent doctors but the business end sucks canal water. I have had so many patients who have gone to CCF and gotten mired in screwed up billing, fraudulent charges(Held in hospital, sent to a room and put in bed, and then charged for outpatient “observer” status is the favorite. Clue: insurance does not pay exorbitant charges for “observation.” ) Costs people thousands of dollars out of pocket that should be billed honestly and paid by insurance.
I know of one personally who had to be prepared to physically fight her way to get discharged after being put on “observer” status for a migraine. The doctors threatened her that they would write it as AMA discharge, even though she had
never been admitted to inpatient status. They charged her over 10,000 dollars, having run some tests but provided no treatment. Fortunately, she was Irish and not about to be taken advantage of by a bunch of hotshots. She did have a nice meal though.
Fine, if you need a heart transplant, by all means go there. But expect to pay possibly for the rest of your life. Such is the industrial model of “healthcare” since Obama care became law, and CCF was held up by the Kenyan as a model of what he thought it should be like.
Incidental bit of history. Cleveland Clinic was founded 101 years ago, but in a part of town that became low income. They never had an ER until the 1980s, iirc, Didn’t want to have to treat their neighbors who didn’t have any money. Let them go to County, , if they lived long enough to survive the EMS truck ride.
We have a Cleveland clinic Hospital and Medical Center here in a fairly small town in Florida where I live. It was independent a couple years ago, then Cleveland clinic took it over. Now all the doctors work for Cleveland clinic. Nobody seems to be happy. People complain about the care and the employees complain about the way they are treated. A lot of docs left the system, but it is the only hospital in town. My brother-in-law went in for a minor surgery and had a stroke on the table. My sister-in-law is definitely not happy because my brother-in-law is not recovering well. She is not impressed needless to say.
I never liked the number 2.
And ..... they have the best orchestra in America!
Heard them play Peter and the Wolf on a school field trip, lol.
Separately, several years ago they acquired and absorbed a local Ohio hospital and health care network which our family GP was in, and which had on two occasions provided excellent surgical care for me. Our GP left her practice in part because of the ham-handed way the CC came in and screwed up what had been an excellent hospital and network of care givers. Everyone in that practice would just roll their eyes when I asked how the takeover was going.
Sorry, I know they've done wonders hosting members of the Saudi royal family for their heart conditions and keeping the king alive well past his call-back-to Allah date. And I've seen and visited their palatial exhibition platforms at the MEDICA Fair in Germany and Arab Health in Dubai. But I'm at a loss to know by what reasonable measure they'd be considered the 2nd "best" hospital in the world.
PS: On most everything I'm a Cleveland booster. NE Ohio is a great place to live, work, and raise a family.
I try to take the Johnny appleseed approach.
But I was forced to read some management book where in one example
A hospital increased the patient satisfaction surveys and increased profits by 40% by charging a lot more and giving the patients a richer experience, brighter rooms, flowers, meals that tasted good, pretty nurse assistants who spoke well and answered buzzers quickly, and doctors who were not rushed and pretended to care.
haha. MD Anderson isn’t even on the list. I’ve gone there for prostate cancer followups too and did proton at Loma Linda in California for prostate cancer. It isn’t on the list either. Not sure what their definition of “best” is but I am sure it is different than mine!
I agree.
Saved my life —had a rare cancer and commuted to the CC from Akron Ohio for the first 9 months of 1992. Three surgeries, radiation, chemo, follow up surgery after a massive infection set it. They are the greatest —from the docs, to the nurses to even the cleaning staff. Just the greatest!!
Whereas the Cleveland Clinic is a fine medical center, these surveys are next to worthless and are little more valid than the online reviews of a restaurant that is skewed by ‘self’ reviews. Ratings are solicited by hospitals, and as you stated - there are too many variables (including manipulated variables) that influence these ratings.
More importantly, at every medical center, no matter how highly rated, there is significant variability in the kind of care you will receive from different physicians and other caregivers. That is an unfortunate reality.
They have one of the few transplant centers in the world that require a covid vaccine to get a transplant.
Cleveland clinic saved my life a few years ago after I had been misdiagnosed by two other hospitals.
I don’t trust Newsweek.
Severence Hall?? Me too.
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