The Vienna General Hospital and its university hospitals, which are co-operated with MedUni Vienna, have been ranked 30th among the best hospitals in the world by US news magazine Newsweek and data provider Statista. At the top are the Mayo Clinic in Rochester (USA), the Cleveland Clinic (USA) and the Massachusetts General Hospital (USA). The best hospital in Europe is Sweden’s Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset in sixth place.
Innsbruck University Hospitals also ranked 58th in the top 100 and the University Hospital in Graz ranked 79th. Salzburg State Hospital – University Hospital (114th place), Linz Elisabethinen Order Hospital (156th place), Kepler University Hospital Linz ( 171st place), Vienna’s Hanusch Hospital (198th place) and the Hospital of the Sisters of Charity in Vienna (234th place) follow. ). More than 2,300 clinics in 28 countries were assessed for the top 250 ranking.
Sustainability as a quality feature
In addition to “top-notch care, top-notch research, and top-notch innovation,” Newsweek defines “consistency” as a hallmark of its ranked clinics. “The best hospitals in the world consistently attract the best employees and deliver the best patient outcomes and the most important new therapies and studies. Of all the hospitals in the world, there are relatively few that can do all these things year after year,” the AKH quoted from the foreword to the ranking in a broadcast on Thursday.
Vienna General Hospital and MedUni Vienna jointly run 29 university clinics with more than 400 specialized outpatient departments. About 80,000 patients are treated annually. The outpatient clinics and special outpatient clinics are also visited about 1.2 million times, the AKH explains.
Source: Krone
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