How Does Beth Israel Deaconess - Needham Rank? US News & World Report

NEEDHAM, MA — U.S. News and World Report released its annual rankings of the best hospitals in the country for 2017-18, ranking more than 4,500 medical centers in the U.S. in 25 specialties, procedures and conditions. The ranking lists the top 20 hospitals nationally, and the top 10 for Massachusetts.

The rankings also looked at the best hospitals in every state, including Massachusetts, and the 20 hospitals that made it to the honor roll, a distinction given to hospitals that deliver exceptional treatment across multiple specialties.

Here how Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Needham performed in the study:

• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) - Average
• Colon Cancer Surgery - Not rated
• Heart Failure - Average
• Hip Replacement - Below average
• Knee Replacement - Below average

Patient Experience:

• Satisfaction with the hospital overall - 3 out of 5 stars
• Willingness to recommend - 4 out of 5 stars
• Satisfaction with doctors’ communications - 4 out of 5 stars
• Satisfaction with nurses’ communications - 4 out of 5 stars
• Satisfaction with pain relief - 3 out of 5 stars
• Satisfaction with efforts to prevent medication harm - 3 out of 5 stars
• Satisfaction with quality of discharge information - 4 out of 5 stars
• Satisfaction with involvement in recovery - 4 out of 5 stars
• Satisfaction with staff responsiveness - 2 out of 5 stars
• Satisfaction with hospital room cleanliness - 4 out of 5 stars
• Satisfaction with noise volume - 1 out of 5 stars

The methodology used by U.S. News is based largely on objective measures with more than 70 percent of the rankings relying on such data. The rankings also took into account survey answers from more than 125,000 physicians across the country about reputation. U.S. News also looked at five years of Medicare data and the number of patients treated in hospitals. The methodology was also updated to avoid penalizing hospitals for treating low-income hospitals or for accepting high-risk cases transferred from other hospitals. For the best regional hospitals, procedures and conditions rankings were emphasized more than specialty rankings.

The specialties included in the rankings are:

• Cancer
• Cardiology and Heart Surgery
• Diabetes and Endocrinology
• Ear, Nose and Throat
• Gastroenterology and GI Surgery
• Geriatrics
• Gynecology
• Nephrology
• Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Ophthalmology
• Orthopedics
• Pulmonology
• Psychiatry
• Rehabilitation
• Rheumatology
• Urology

Charlene Arsenault contributed to this report.

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