Jul 11, 2008 5:31 pm US/Eastern
Hopkins Tops Magazine's Hospital Rankings
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U.S. News & World Report has again ranked Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital as the best in the country.
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U.S. News & World Report has again ranked Baltimore's Johns Hopkins
Hospital as the best in the country.
Kai Jackson reports the hospital has consistently offered top notch medical care for more than a century.
As a research hospital, Hopkins is responsible for some of the most important discoveries of our time. Hopkins' doctors pioneered the use of rubber gloves in 1889 and were among the first to isolate and cultivate human embryonic stem cells.
"We have scientists from a wide variety of disciplines collected under one roof: engineers in this room, genetics in my laboratory, hematologists, neuroscientists, all working together," said Dr. Stephen Desiderio with Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Scientists are working on prosthetic hands that respond to thoughts. Patients benefit directly from a research hospital.
"A lot of the research that I've done in my career has really come straight out of either issues my patients have raised with me or issues that I've noticed with speaking with them," said Dr. Sherita Golden.
Nurses at Hopkins have earned the prestigious "magnet" status, which recognizes national excellence in nursing.
"We as nurses seek to improve our standard. We often go to leadership and say this is what we want to do and this is how we want to make the patient care better," said Christine Gonzalez.
With more than 1,000 beds, Hopkins is a sprawling hospital, but there's an intense focus on patients' individual needs.
"One of our biggest claims to fame is innovation. Innovation is how we take care of patients, how we look at who should be taking care of you," said Dr. Julie Freischlag.
The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. and the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical in Los Angeles followed Johns Hopkins in the rankings released Friday by the magazine. The magazine's best hospital guide ranks 170 medical centers nationwide in 16 specialties.
Following the top three in the rankings are the Cleveland Clinic; Massachusetts General in Boston; New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell; the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center; Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston; Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C.; the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle.
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