I had an outpatient procedure 2 yrs. ago where I stopped breathing. When I requested my records, they said I did not have it done there. After several weeks, they told me they "lost" my records.
It took 7 months to get my records. I found out that the anesthesiologist was not a doctor but a Nurse Anesthetist. I had an EKG afterwards, which I just found out was "abnormal", but they sent me home anyway without telling me a thing. They did not file an incident report either.

So excuse me if I beg to differ. It was the worst experience I ever had.

In 2002 my husband had open-heart surgery at Hopkins to replace his aortic valve. We are forever grateful to Dr. John Conte and his cardiac/surgery team and all the nurses and techs in this unit. It's been 9-years since his surgery and the valve still works perfectly (and we intend to keep it that way!) Hats off to Hopkins!

Why is there not a ranking for pediatric hospitals or specialties? Pediatric hospitals are amazing and the physicians who are specialized in pediatric medicine are heros.

Adult medicine and pediatric medicine cannot be ranked the same.

How come pediatric medicine is not included in the specialties? Pediatric hospitals are where miracles are made. The physicians who care for pediatric patients are heros to children and their families. True pediatric facilities treat children ONLY and have staff specializing in pediatrics.

Pediatric and Adult physicians are completely different.

Of those 140 hospitals, San Diego had 6. UCSD, Scripps Mercy, Scripps La Jolla, Sharp Memorial, Sharp Chula Vista and Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns.

Delivering at Sharp Mary Birch was such a wonderful experience. Well done team.

I assume that means they have the highest medical services costs. Are they the Tiffany of medical care? . No rating for productivity on service delivery to cost unfortunately.

Having had two first hand experiences with Johns Hopkins involving my three year old son in June 2011 (one planned/ one not planned) I have to say that this institution is a wonderful place with great organization and amazing people. We are lucky that we are so close to them. In an environment where we are consistently let down with lack of service, communication, empathy and sympathy from businesses and organizations - the wonderful people at Johns Hopkins exceed expectations and truly left us feeling thankful, well cared for, educated and most importantly like our son had the best care in the entire world - which it looks like he did!

UCSF (University of California, San Francisco) is great, but now I live in Chicago now, and I can't believe that a city this size does not have one hospital that's on that list.

 
Horse Feathers! The measurement stick is outlandish. Would not it be better for a hospital to be selected for it's 5 strongest categories ;as opposed to 21 categories. Conceiveably, a hospital may not be selected for the top 150 only because they do not provide healthcare in all categories. Accordingly, these hospitals face elimination or low grades.
;My last point...Cedars Saina Hospital in Los Angeles, has one of the world's most advanced neurological treatment and research center.. Did you fellows miss this one? I challenge you to take a look.

Joseph

John Hopkins may well be the best hospital as per your survey. However, I feel confident that other surveys may well place some other distinguished institution(s) at the top. Sooooo, Hooray for John Hopkins, but more importantly, Hooray, Hooray for those that were not even considered and or dropped by the way side by your rather imperious selection of categories.
Ciao