2007 U.S. News
"One of America's Best Hospitals"
The MUSC Medical Center has been named by U.S. News & World Report as one of the country's best hospitals in digestive diseases and in respiratory disorders. This is the eleventh consecutive year that MUSC’s Digestive Disease Center was named to the list. The standards for ranking in “Best Hospitals” are rigorous. This year, the magazine sifted data from 5,462 hospitals to arrive at 173 stellar medical centers in 16 specialty areas. MUSC's Digestive Disease Center (DDC) ranks 7th among all other institutions in the Southeast, and 9th among all state-affiliated centers nationally. In respiratory disorders, MUSC is 10th among all southeastern institutions and 14th among all state-affiliated institutions. Initial eligibility is determined based on three entry standards: membership in the Council of Teaching Hospitals, affiliation with a medical school, or availability of at least six of 13 advanced medical services. Each specialty had its own eligibility requirements, along with having had to have seen a specified number of Medicare inpatients who had certain conditions or underwent certain procedures, or be named among the best facilities in the specialty by at least one physician responding to the latest U.S. News surveys. Hospitals that met these requirements received a score that assigns equal weight to reputation, mortality, and a group of other care-related factors such as nursing. MUSC is the only hospital in South Carolina to be ranked in any of the service categories. Rankings can be found at usnews.com.
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