The only ones five hospitals in Spain who have managed to sneak into the Top 100 of the best hospitals in the world 2023 produced by the magazine Newsweek and the portal Statista are public. From them, three are in Madrid and two in Barcelona. An excellence that comes to be recognized in a key year, which marks the official end of the Covid-19 pandemic. The virus has put unprecedented pressure on healthcare systems around the globe. This situation, added to the increase in costs, an aging population and an exhausted medical staff, make the publication of this ranking a “tribute” to the entire community, as stated by the director of the American publication.
The classification includes the best hospitals, both public and private. The crown has fallen on him Mayo Cliniclocated in the city of Rochester (New York, United States), ahead of the Cleveland Clinic (Ohio, United States), in second position. The third on the podium also American, the Massachusetts General Hospital from Boston. In total, the North American country has five hospitals among the ten best valued.
The same number of hospitals that our country maintains in the first hundred of the list. To discover the position occupied by our centers, we must go down to the position number 53. There is the La Paz University Hospital of Madrid, considered the best in Spain. In position 62, as the second best Spanish public hospital, is the Hospital Clinic of Barcelonawhile the third best positioned is the University Hospital October 12, in the south of the capital. The other two hospitals listed among the 100 best in the world are the Vall d’Hebron Hospital from Barcelona (position 83) and the Gregorio Maranon from Madrid (position 90).
As for the best private hospitals in Spain, the first is the University of Navarra Clinicwhich appears in position 97. Position 211 occupies the Jimenez Diaz Foundation of Madrid. Other public hospitals that appear are the Ramón y Cajal Hospital (152), Polytechnic University Hospital and the Faith of Valencia (205), San Carlos Clinic in Madrid (216), Hospital Virgen del Rocío in Seville (220) and the Puerta de Hierro de Majadahonda in Madrid (230). The Marquis of Valdecilla, in Santander (245), closes the list of Spanish complexes, since the classification of the best hospitals ends at number 250.
The ranking of the best hospitals in the world of Newsweek is based on different factors. Among them, it uses the results of hospital recommendations that are collected through an international survey in which the more than 80,000 professionals of care and key performance metrics (such as patient safety, hygiene measures, and quality of care). Likewise, to assess each hospital center, issues such as assistance, research and innovation and the perseverance of its professionals.
This year, the statesman list team has added “an important new pillar” to its scoring model. For the first time, hospitals have been surveyed on the status of PROM implementation. PROMs are defined as standardized questionnaires completed by patients to measure their perception of functional well-being and quality of life.
In that top 10, are three European hospitals as the Karolinska hospital in Solna (Sweden), the best hospital in Sweden and Europe, the Charité – Universitätsmedizin in Berlin (Germany) a reference in the German capital, and the Hospital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris (France), the second best public hospital in Europe and the best in the entire French country.
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