Orlando Health hospitals ranked high performing on a national level in six medical specialties by U.S. News & World Report
Orlando, FL (July 16, 2024) – U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in hospital rankings and consumer advice, has named Orlando Health Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center and Orlando Health South Seminole Hospital as 2024-2025 High Performing hospitals on a national level in six categories:
- Diabetes and Endocrinology (Nationally ranked #45)
- Cardiology, Heart & Vascular Surgery (Nationally ranked #47)
- Gastroenterology & GI Surgery
- Geriatrics
- Pulmonology & Lung Surgery
- Urology
In the community hospitals classification, the three hospitals ranked high performing in 11 common adult procedure and conditions categories while Orlando Health South Lake Hospital and Orlando Health – Health Central Hospital ranked high performing in six and five categories respectively.
Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center, Orlando Health Dr. P. Phillips Hospital and Orlando Health South Seminole Hospital
- Aortic valve surgery
- COPD
- Colon Cancer Surgery
- Gyn Cancer Surgery
- Heart Attack
- Heart Bypass Surgery
- Heart Failure
- Kidney Failure
- Knee Replacement
- Leukemia, Lymphoma & Myeloma
- Lung Cancer Surgery
Orlando Health South Lake Hospital
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Heart attack
- Heart failure
- Kidney Failure
- Pneumonia
- Stroke
Orlando Health – Health Central Hospital
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Diabetes
- Heart Attack
- Heart Failure
- Hip Replacement
In the U.S. News & World Report 2024-2025 regional ranking of hospitals, Orlando Health ranked #6 in Florida and #2 in the Orlando Metro Area.
The U.S. News & World Report ratings are designed to assist patients and their doctors in making informed decisions about where to receive care for challenging health conditions or elective procedures. Nearly 4,500 hospitals across 15 specialties and 20 procedures and conditions were evaluated for this most recent award period. Evaluations measured a variety of factors including hospital survival rates, complication rates, patient experience and level of nursing care. High Performing ratings for medical specialties were awarded to hospitals providing care that is significantly better than the national average.
“These ratings reflect Orlando Health’s continued commitment to improving the health and quality of life of every patient and community we serve, and the dedication of each member of our team to provide world-class care,” said George Ralls, MD, chief medical officer, Orlando Health. “We are proud to be recognized for the exemplary care that our patients can expect when they choose Orlando Health.”
The U.S. News methodology is based entirely on objective measures of quality. For more information, visit U.S. News Best Hospitals.
About Orlando Health
Orlando Health, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is a private, not-for-profit healthcare organization with $9.6 billion of assets under management that serves the southeastern United States and Puerto Rico.
Founded more than 100 years ago, the healthcare system is recognized around the world for Central Florida’s only pediatric and adult Level I Trauma program as well as the only state-accredited Level II Adult Trauma Center in Pinellas County. It is the home of one of the nation’s largest neonatal intensive care units, one of the only systems in the southeast to offer open fetal surgery to repair the most severe forms of spina bifida, the site of an Olympic athlete training facility and operator of one of the largest and highest performing clinically integrated networks in the region. Orlando Health has pioneered life-changing medical research and its Graduate Medical Education program hosts more than 350 residents and fellows.
The 3,487-bed system includes 17 hospitals, 10 free-standing emergency rooms and nine Hospital Care at Home programs. An additional four hospitals and six free-standing emergency rooms are coming soon. The system also includes 10 specialty institutes, skilled nursing facilities, an in-patient behavioral health facility under the management of Acadia Healthcare, and more than 375 outpatient facilities that include physician clinics, imaging and laboratory services, wound care centers, home healthcare services in partnership with LHC Group, and urgent care centers in partnership with CareSpot Urgent Care. More than 4,950 physicians, representing more than 100 medical specialties and subspecialties have privileges across the Orlando Health system, which employs more than 29,000 team members and more than 1,500 physicians.
In FY 23, Orlando Health cared for 197,000 inpatients and 6.6 million outpatients. The healthcare system provided nearly $1.3 billion in total impact to the communities it serves in the form of community benefit programs and services, Medicare shortfalls, bad debt, community-building activities and capital investments in FY 22, the most recent period for which this information is available.
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