Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/kx_55ON9oB4   The annual hospital academy awards are out!  The magazine US News & World Report has just released its picks for best overall hospitals.  They base their selections by analyzing public data from almost 5,000 US hospitals that covers treatment success rates, breadth of specialized services available, patient safety, patient and family satisfaction scores, and scores on surveys from more than 30,000 US physicians.   Here are the top 20: Mayo Clinic, Minnesota Mass. General Hospital, Boston Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore Cleveland Clinic, Ohio New York Presbyterian-Columbia/Cornell, New York City UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles NYU Medical Center, New York City Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago University of Michigan Hospitals, Michigan Stanford Hospital, Palo Alto, CA Brigham & Women’s, Boston Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City UPMC Shadyside, Pittsburgh USC Hospital, Los Ange