U.S. News ranks Nebraska Medical Center No. 1 in Nebraska for 11th straight year
Every year, U.S. News & World Report evaluates more than 4,500 hospitals nationwide to develop their annual list of Best Hospitals. Again, Nebraska Medical Center is the No. 1 rated hospital in the Omaha metro area and the state of Nebraska. In addition, four specialties were listed as high performing.
Specialties listed as high performing include:
Twelve procedures and conditions were rated as high performing, the highest ranking possible:
- Aortic valve surgery
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Colon cancer surgery
- Diabetes
- Heart attack
- Heart bypass surgery
- Heart failure
- Kidney failure
- Lung cancer surgery
- Ovarian cancer surgery
- Prostate cancer surgery
- Pneumonia
- Stroke
“It’s incredibly gratifying to see the hard work of all of our colleagues continuing to be recognized,” says James Linder, MD, CEO of Nebraska Medicine. “To do this in the middle of the ongoing pandemic and in the face of the continued staffing challenges confronting everyone in the health care field speaks volumes about the expertise and work ethic of those who serve our patients every day. Being number one in Nebraska for the 11th consecutive year is an incredibly meaningful achievement.”
For the 2021-22 rankings and ratings, U.S. News evaluated more than 4,500 medical centers nationwide in 15 specialties and 17 procedures and conditions. In rankings by state and metro area, U.S. News recognized hospitals as high performing across multiple areas of care.
“The hospitals named among the best have extensive medical expertise and a history of delivering good outcomes,” said Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor at U.S. News. “When patients and their medical professionals are considering their options for care, the rankings are designed to help them identify hospitals that are superior in the kind of care they may need.”
U.S. News evaluated each hospital’s performance using a variety of measures such as survival rates, complication rates, patient experience and level of nursing care. The Best Hospitals methodology factors in data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, American Hospital Association, professional organizations and medical specialists.
