2 Valley hospitals rank among best in state

By KALEA HALL

khall@vindy.com

YOUNGSTOWN

Two local Mercy Health hospitals are ranked among the top in the state.

St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital ranked No. 18 out of 26 ranking hospitals in Ohio, and St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital ranked No. 22 in the U.S. News & World Report hospital rankings.

“For more than 100 years, Mercy Health-Youngstown has been deeply committed to our mission to improve the health of our communities,” said Don Kline, president and chief executive officer of Mercy Health-Youngstown, in a statement sent to The Vindicator. “Honors like the U.S. News & World Report rankings validate the work we’re doing to deliver on that mission. We’re grateful for the recognition, and it will serve as continued inspiration for our efforts to be the place where patients want to come for care, physicians want to practice and employees want to work in the Mahoning Valley.”

St. Elizabeth Youngstown was recognized as a high performer in nephrology, pulmonology, heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); St. Elizabeth Boardman was a high performer in heart failure, COPD and knee replacements; and St. Joseph Warren Hospital was a high performer in heart failure and COPD.

Ohio’s top-ranking hospital was the Cleveland Clinic, followed by University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center.

Steward Health Care’s hospitals, Trumbull Memorial Hospital in Warren and Northside Hospital in Youngstown, did not rank in the top 26 hospitals in the state.

No local hospitals ranked nationally.

U.S. News has ranked hospitals for the past 28 years. It looks at more than 4,500 medical centers nationwide in 16 specialties and nine procedures and conditions.

U.S. News looks at risk-adjusted survival and readmission rates, volume, patient experience, patient safety and quality of nursing.

There were 152 hospitals nationally ranked in at least one specialty.

The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., ranked No. 1 on the “Best Hospitals Honor Roll,” and the Cleveland Clinic ranked second. Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md., followed. The Honor Roll award is given to 20 hospitals that deliver exceptional treatment across several areas.

In specialty rankings, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center ranked No. 1 in cancer and the Cleveland Clinic ranked No. 1 in cardiology and heart surgery.