FALL RIVER – Southcoast Hospitals Group Inc., a subsidiary of Southcoast Health System, was named No. 162 among United States hospitals in Newsweek’s World’s Best Hospitals 2019 rankings.
The report included 2,743 hospitals in the nation and honored 226.
The rankings were based on professional recommendations (55 percent), patent experience scores (15 percent) and publicly sourced quality scores (30 percent). 1,000 hospitals made the list worldwide.
The study only included individual hospitals, not groups, according to its methodology, but the Southcoast Hospitals Group hospitals, including Charlton Memorial, St. Luke’s and Tobey hospitals, share a license, making the group eligible for the list, according to Statista, which collaborated with Newsweek to create the rankings.
The Southcoast group was the only inclusion on the list in Rhode Island and Bristol County, Mass.
“Our care is world class and this national and international recognition is a testament to the incredible work our physicians, providers, nurses and staff do every day,” stated Keith Hovan, president and CEO of Southcoast Health. “I am tremendously proud. This is a recognition they have earned many times over.”
The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., ranked No. 1 in the world in 2019, followed by the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. The highest-ranked hospital in Massachusetts was Mass General Hospital at No. 6 in the world.
Hospitals were ranked by country but were not ranked worldwide beyond an alphabetized top 100 list.
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