UW Hospital and Clinics named top academic hospital

UW Hospital and Clinics has been named the top-performing academic hospital in the United States, based on a national benchmarking study by the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), an alliance of the top academic health centers in the United States and their affiliated hospitals.

Other hospitals that were in the top-performing group in the UHC study included the Mayo Clinic, Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and Truman Medical Centers in Kansas City.

The study focuses on gauging quality and safe patient care. More than two-thirds of the 92 UHC member organizations were rated in the areas of safety, mortality, effectiveness and equity.

While UW Hospital and Clinics ranked well in each of the areas examined, the hospital outperformed all other UHC organizations in the category of patient mortality — a factor many would consider the most important for patients when choosing a hospital. UW Hospital and Clinics also received the top composite score.