Hola lalres,
I approached your question by retrieving a list that I'd seen recently
on http://www.mdexpress.com. In the search field, I entered "Best
Hospitals 2002." This U.S. News and World Report, 13th Annual
Edition, ranks 205 hospitals in the country on a variety of criteria
-- reputation, mortality, nurse:bed ratio, hospice/palliative care
facilities, etc., and you can find the entire list here:
http://www.altavista.com/r?ck_sm=48204ba5&ci=4939&q=best+hospitals&ref=20080&uid=ad2584a508cf892&r=http://www.usnews.com/usnews/nycu/health/hosptl/tophosp.htm
Since the majority of these hospitals are teaching institutions,
they're in the business of education -- both for medical students and
patients -- so you will find a wealth of information at each of these
sites.
Johns Hopkins Hospital - Baltimore
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org
Mayo Clinic - Rochester
http://www.mayo.edu/
Cleveland Clinic - Cleveland
http://www.clevelandclinic.org
Massachusetts General - Boston
http://www.mgh.harvard.edu
UCLA Medical Center - Los Angeles
http://www.healthcare.ucla.edu
Duke University Medical Center - Durham
http://dukehealth.org
University of Calif. - San Francisco
http://www.ucsfhealth.org
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
http://www.med.umich.edu
Barnes-Jewish Hospital - St. Louis
http://www.barnesjewish.org
Brigham & Women's Hospital - Boston
http://www.brighamandwomens.org
University of Washington - Seattle
http://www.washington.edu/medical/uwmc/index.html
New York Presbyterian - New York
http://www.nyp.org/
University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia
http://pennhealth.com/upmc
Stanford University Hospital - Palo Alto
http://www.stanfordhospital.com
University of Chicago
http://www.uchospitals.edu/
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center - Pittsburgh
http://www.upmc.com
Vanderbilt University Hospital and Clinics - Nashville
http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu
There was, of course, quite a bit of overlap when breaking the best
hospitals per subspecialty, so I chose one or two hospitals ranked in
the top 15 not mentioned above.
CANCER:
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center - Houston
http://www.mdanderson.org
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - New York
http://www.mskcc.org
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - Boston
http://www.dfci.harvard.edu
GI:
Mt. Sinai Medical Center - New York
http://www.msnyuhealth.org/hso/hosp_index.jsp
EAR, NOSE, THROAT:
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics - Iowa City
http://www.uihealthcare.com/uihospitalsandclinics
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary - Boston
http://www.meei.harvard.edu
OPHTHALMOLOGY:
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute - Miami
http://www.bpei.med.miami.edu
GERIATRICS:
Yale-New Haven Hospitals - New Haven
http://www.ynhh.org
GYNECOLOGY:
Parkland Memorial Hospital - Dallas
http://www3.utsouthwestern.edu/parkland/realindex.html
CARDIOLOGY:
Texas Heart Institute/St. Luke's Episcopal - Houston
http://www.texasheartinstitute.org
Emory University Hospital - Atlanta
http://www.emoryhealthcare.org/ehc/
ENDOCRINE:
University of Virginia Health Sciences Center - Charlottesville
http://www.med.virginia.edu
RENAL:
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center - Denver
http://uch.uchsc.edu
NEUROLOGY/NEUROSURGERY:
Methodist Hospital - Houston
http://www.methodisthealth.com
ORTHOPEDICS:
Hospital for Special Surgery - New York
http://www.hss.edu
PEDIATRICS:
Children's Hospital - Boston
http://www.childrenshospital.org
PSYCHIATRY:
Menninger Clinic - Topeka
http://www.menningerclinic.com
REHABILITATION:
Rehabilitation Institute - Chicago
http://www.rehabchicago.org
PULMONARY/RESPIRATORY:
National Jewish Center - Denver
http://www.njc.org/main.html
RHEUMATOLOGY:
University of Alabama - Birmingham
http://www.health.uab.edu
UROLOGY:
Indiana University and Methodist Hospitals
http://www.clarian.org/index.jhtml
This should get you started on your medical education but if you
require anything further or information about a specialty not
mentioned, please ask for a clarification. Thanks ever so much for
using Google Answers.
Good health to you,
V |
