For the 13th consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report ranked UW Hospitals No. 1 in Wisconsin on its Best Hospitals list. The ranking evaluated almost 5,000 hospitals.
In addition, UW Hospitals had seven medical and surgical specialties ranked among the best in the nation: ear, nose, and throat; gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery; geriatrics; obstetrics and gynecology; orthopedics; pulmonology and lung surgery; and urology. Obstetrics and gynecology was ranked among the top 10 in the nation, at No. 7. Three additional medical and surgical specialties were rated as high performing: cancer; cardiology, heart, and vascular surgery; and neurology and neurosurgery.
UW Hospitals, which includes University Hospital and East Madison Hospital, also received the highest rating for 18 procedures and conditions impacting people 65 years old and older.
The procedures and conditions are abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, aortic valve surgery, back surgery, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, colon cancer surgery, gynecological cancer surgery, heart attack, heart bypass surgery, heart failure, hip fracture, hip replacement, kidney failure, knee replacement, leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma, lung cancer surgery, pneumonia, prostate cancer surgery, and stroke.
UW Hospitals are part of the UW Health system, which also includes American Family Children’s Hospital, UW Health SwedishAmerican Hospital, UW Health | Carbone Cancer Center, the UW Health Rehabilitation Hospital, and an affiliation with UnityPoint Health–Meriter.
