One Baltimore Hospital Among 10 Best In World: Newsweek

BALTIMORE, MD — Several Baltimore area hospitals were ranked in a new list from Newsweek identifying the best hospitals in the world. The magazine’s “World’s Best Hospitals 2019” list was created in partnership with Statista, a global market research and consumer data company.

According to Newsweek, 1,000 hospitals from around the world were selected for the list “based on recommendations from medical professionals, patient survey results and medical performance indicators.”

Among the top 10 hospitals in the world, four were in the United States. One of them was right here in Baltimore.

Here are the U.S. hospitals that made the top 10 on the "World's Best Hospitals 2019" list from Newsweek:

• Mayo Clinic-Rochester; Rochester, Minnesota (No. 1)
• Cleveland Clinic; Cleveland, Ohio (No. 2)
• Johns Hopkins Hospitals; Baltimore, Maryland (No. 4)
• Massachusetts General Hospital; Boston, Massachusetts (No. 6)

In addition to the global rankings, which ranked the top 10 hospitals in the world and listed 90 other hospitals in alphabetical order, Newsweek also ranked the best hospitals by country. The magazine explained that the scores awarded to each hospital are only comparable to hospitals in the same country.

More than 200 U.S. hospitals made Newsweek’s 2019 list.

Here's how the seven Maryland hospitals ranked among those in the U.S., according to Newsweek:

• The Johns Hopkins Hospital (No. 3 among U.S. hospitals)
• Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center (No. 69)
• University Of Maryland Medical Center (No. 76)
• MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital (No. 141)
• Anne Arundel Medical Center (No. 158)
• MedStar Union Memorial Hospital (No. 198)
• Saint Joseph Medical Center (No. 220)

Newsweek’s rankings list the best hospitals in the U.S., Canada, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Switzerland, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Australia and Israel.

Johns Hopkins Hospital has been honored repeatedly in hospital rankings, including in those issued by U.S. News & World Report and Becker's.

You can read more about Newsweek's rankings and methodology here.

— By Feroze Dhanoa and Elizabeth Janney