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July 7, 2006 -- For the seventh time in eight years, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has been placed on U.S. News & World Report magazine's America's Best Hospitals Honor Roll as one of the top ranked hospitals in the United States. UPMC remains the only area health system to receive this distinction, and this year is the only hospital in Pennsylvania to be ranked. According to U.S. News & World Report, the Honor Roll recognizes those institutions that perform at a very high level across many specialties. UPMC placed 14th out of 5,189 eligible hospitals in the United States.
To be placed on the magazine's Honor Roll, hospitals not only had to rank in certain specialty areas but they also had to be close to the top in a number of them. Also included on this select list of nationally prestigious institutions are Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore; the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.; and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. This year, UPMC is recognized in 14 of 16 specialty areas. No other Pittsburgh hospital is ranked in any specialty. UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside placed in 12 specialty areas, UPMC's Magee-Womens Hospital was ranked in gynecology, and UPMC's Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh was ranked in pediatrics. U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Hospitals is an assessment of the nation's hospitals based on an index made up of three equal parts related to quality of care: reputation, mortality, and various factors such as procedure volume and nursing care. These rankings will appear in the July 17 issue of U.S. News & World Report, which will be on newsstands Monday, July 10, and in the magazine's online Best Hospitals Guide for 2006.
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UPMC's 2005 rankings.
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