St. Elizabeth Edgewood ties for top Ky. hospital; how other locals rank on U.S. News list

Brooks Sutherland, Cincinnati Enquirer
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General view of the St. Elizabeth Edgewood Hospital in Edgewood, Ky. in September 2020.
General view of the St. Elizabeth Edgewood Hospital in Edgewood, Ky. in September 2020.

St. Elizabeth Edgewood Hospital tied for the best hospital in the state of Kentucky in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings.

The northern Kentucky hospital and the University of Kentucky's Albert B. Chandler Hospital in Lexington shared the top spot in the state despite few ranked adult specialties, the full Best Hospital rankings released Tuesday by the news organization shows.

No hospitals in the Cincinnati region finished on the list's honor roll, which names the best 20 hospitals in the nation. The Cleveland Clinic was the lone Ohio hospital on the list, finishing fourth.

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Though Edgewood didn't rank nationally in the top 50 in any of the 15 specialty categories listed by U.S. News & World Report, it received many "high performing" marks for concentrations such as: abdominal, back surgery, heart, colon, and diabetes. The UK hospital was the only Kentucky center to receive a national ranking from the magazine (33rd in cancer care).

St. E's Edgewood has consistently finished atop the state in the annual hospital rankings.

How Cincinnati area hospitals fared

In Ohio, the Christ Hospital Health Network finished fifth in the state behind the Cleveland Clinic main campus, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Unversity Hospitals' Cleveland Medical Center, and the Cleveland Clinic's Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield Heights.

Christ Hospital didn't have any ranked adult specialties but finished with four high-performing specialties according to the rankings. TriHealth's Bethesda North Hospital tied for 12th best hospital in the state, while the University of Cincinnati Medical Center tied for 16th.

The front entrance of Christ Hospital in the Mount Auburn neighborhood of Cincinnati
The front entrance of Christ Hospital in the Mount Auburn neighborhood of Cincinnati

What's in the rankings?

The annual rankings, now in the 33rd year of publication, rank hospital performance in 15 specialty areas and encompass 35 areas of care in total, including procedures and conditions.

The 15 specialty areas are:

  • Cancer.

  • Cardiology and heart surgery.

  • Diabetes and endocrinology.

  • Ear, nose and throat.

  • Gastroenterology and GI surgery.

  • Geriatrics.

  • Obstetrics and gynecology.

  • Neurology and neurosurgery.

  • Orthopedics.

  • Pulmonology and lung surgery.

  • Rehabilitation.

  • Urology.

  • Ophthalmology.

  • Psychiatry.

  • Rheumatology.

“For patients considering their options for where to get care, the Best Hospitals rankings are designed to help them and their medical professionals identify hospitals that excel in the kind of care they may need,” said Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor at U.S. News. “The new cancer ratings provide patients facing surgery for prostate cancer or gynecological cancer with previously unavailable information to assist them in making a critical health care decision.”

Last month, the publication ranked Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center as the third best children's hospital in the nation.

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