Rady Children's Ranked Among Nation's Top Hospitals
San Diego, CA – June 3, 2010 U.S. News & World Report today announced the results of its comprehensive survey to identify the top children’s hospitals in the country in ten pediatric specialties. Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego achieved rankings in five of the ten specialties. With more than 200 children’s hospitals in the United States, the top rankings place Rady Children’s among the nation’s elite.
The 2010 edition of America’s Best Children’s Hospitals, the most extensive listing of its kind, ranked hospitals in cancer, diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology, heart & heart surgery, kidney, neonatology, neurology & neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology, and urology.
The specialties at Rady Children’s ranking in the top 30 are: Orthopedics (#4), Urology (#12), Neonatology (#27), Pulmonology (#30), and Diabetes and Endocrinology (#30).
“The results are even more remarkable when you consider that many of the top-ranked children’s hospitals in this survey are more than 100 years old and have built their reputation for treating children, teaching doctors and conducting research over generations,” said Kathleen Sellick, President and CEO of Rady Children’s Hospital. “Rady Children’s is only 55 years old and is still growing in its reputation as an academic medical center. We’re honored to be recognized for our achievements.”
“While they might be a small percentage of all hospital patients, a large number of children every year need high-quality hospital care,” said Health Rankings Editor Avery Camarow. “The objective of the Best Children’s Hospitals rankings is to help children with uniquely challenging medical needs, and for these special patients, it is essential they seek treatment at pediatric facilities with deep expertise. With this year’s rankings, we’re providing important information on the best of the best.”
The survey is published online at www.usnews.com/childrenshospitals and featured in the August issue of U.S. News & World Report, available on newsstands starting July 27.
The methodology behind this year’s rankings weighed a three-part blend of reputation, outcome, and care-related measures such as nursing care, advanced technology, credentialing, and other factors. The hospitals were judged based on a combination of opinions from pediatric specialists about the hospitals they would recommend for the sickest children and data gathered in a 65-page survey covering important medical information ranging from surgical death rates to whether pediatric anesthesiologists and other sub specialists are on the staff. A detailed description of the methodology can be found at www.usnews.com/childrenshospitals.
Ranking-eligible facilities were largely drawn from two membership categories of the National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI): freestanding children’s hospitals, or “hospitals within a hospital” (large, multidisciplinary pediatric departments within a medical center). Several non-NACHRI members were added because of known expertise or at the recommendation of experts. The survey was created and administered by RTI International, the same respected research organization that collects the data and oversees the methodology behind the adult Best Hospitals rankings.
About Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego: Rady Children's Hospital is a 261-bed pediatric care facility providing the largest source of comprehensive pediatric medical services in San Diego, Southern Riverside and Imperial counties. Rady Children’s is San Diego’s only hospital dedicated exclusively to pediatric healthcare and the region’s only designated pediatric trauma center. On October 10, 2010, Rady Children's will open the Acute Care Pavilion, a LEED-Certified (green) building that will be home to the incredible new Peckham Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, the state-of-the-art Warren Family Surgical Center, and a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit that cares for our community’s tiniest and most fragile babies In 2001, Rady Children’s formed a partnership with the University of California, San Diego to unify pediatric patient care, research, education, and community service programs. For more information, visit www.rchsd.org. You can also follow Rady Children's on Facebook at www.facebook.com/radychildrens.
