Three UNC Health hospitals saw their names listed in Newsweek’s “World’s Best Hospitals 2023” rankings, with two cracking the top 100 in the United States.
The main branch of UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill (No. 89 in the U.S.), UNC Health Rex in Raleigh (No. 79 in the U.S.) and UNC Health Johnston in Smithfield (No. 358 in the U.S.) were all included on the list of more than 2,300 hospitals in 28 countries.
Newsweek said it surveyed more than 80,000 medical experts when compiling the rankings. Hospitals were evaluated based on four sources: peer recommendations, patient experience, hospital quality (such as safety, hygiene and waiting times) and patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs). UNC Health defines PROMs as “standardized, validated questionnaires completed by patients to measure their perception of their functional well-being and quality of life.”
“The goal of the rankings is to provide data-based comparison of hospital reputation and performance that is useful to patients and families,” a statement from UNC Health read, “as well as to hospitals as they benchmark themselves against their peers.”
For a full look at the rankings, click here.
Editor’s Note: A previous version of this article did not specify the rankings for UNC Health’s hospitals were in the United States. It has since been updated.
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This headline is incorrect. The rankings you site are for rankings in the United States, not in the top 250 in the World. Go back and carefully check your top filter-it says “United States”. When you change the filter to “top 250 in the world”, UNC does not rank.
Hi there Susanne — thanks for pointing this out. We’ve made an update in the article to clarify that fact. The headline, however, is accurate, since that is the name of Newsweek’s rankings.