Becker's Hospital Review

63 63 CEO / STRATEGY US News' Best Hospitals 2018-19 Honor Roll By Alyssa Rege U .S. News & World Report released its Best Hospitals rankings for 2018-19 on Aug. 14. is year's rankings compared more than 4,500 medical centers across 25 specialties, procedures and conditions. For the 2018-19 rankings, 158 hospitals were nationally ranked in at least one specialty. For the third consecutive year, Rochester, Minn.- based Mayo Clinic ranked as the No. 1 hospital on U.S. News' Best Hospitals Honor Roll. Here are the top 20 hospitals named to U.S. News' 2018-19 Best Hospitals Honor Roll, including ties: 1. Mayo Clinic 2. Cleveland Clinic 3. e Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore) 4. Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston) 5. Michigan Medicine (Ann Arbor) 6. UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco) 7. UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles) 8. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles) 9. Stanford (Calif.) Hospital 10. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (New York City) 11. Barnes-Jewish Hospital (St. Louis) 11. Mayo Clinic Hospital (Phoenix) 13. Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago) 14. Hospitals of the University of Pennsylva- nia-Penn Presbyterian (Philadelphia) 15. NYU Langone Hospital (New York City) 15. UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside (Pittsburgh) 17. Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nash- ville, Tenn.) 18. e Mount Sinai Hospital (New York City) 19. Duke University Hospital (Durham, N.C.) 20. Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston) n Amazon hires top cardiologist from Mass General By Julie Spitzer R enowned cardiologist Maulik Majmudar, MD, is joining Amazon as the tech giant continues its push into the health sector, CNBC re- ported. Dr. Majmudar tweeted his decision to join Amazon Aug. 20. He previously served as a cardiologist and associate director of the healthcare transfor- mation lab at Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital and lectured at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. It's not clear which team he will be joining, as Amazon has numerous health-related efforts, but Dr. Majmudar called his new post an "excit- ing and challenging role." Some of Dr. Majmudar's work could be with Amazon's Grand Challenges team, a research and development group working on various projects including medical records and telemedicine, CNBC suggested. Other tech companies, like Alphabet's life sciences arm Verily and Face- book, have also snagged heart health experts. "This is a fascinating move that signals how all the big tech players, like Amazon, Google and Apple, understand that the most prevalent disease in the world is heart disease," Vic Gundotra, CEO of AliveCor, a heart health technology company, told CNBC. "It's one of the greatest places where technology can have an impact, in diagnosing and screening for these diseases." n 47-hospital Adventist Health System changes name By Alyssa Rege A ltamonte Springs, Fla.-based Adventist Health System revealed plans Aug. 14 to rebrand its nearly 50 hospitals to become a single consumer-centric, identifiable organization. The system's facilities and care sites will adopt the name AdventHealth and a new logo beginning Jan. 2, 2019. Officials said the goal of the re- branding effort is to help patients and consumers more easily distinguish the system's care locations. "We are transforming to be a more consumer-focused healthcare system to better meet the needs of those we care for and the communities we serve," said Terry Shaw, president and CEO of Adventist Health System. "Becoming AdventHealth allows us to be a fully integrated and distin- guishable health system across all aspects of the care continuum, while also speaking to our Christian healing ministry, message of wholeness and our rich Seventh-day Adventist roots." The organization spent eight months preparing to rebrand. Officials said they plan to implement a television and print ad campaign in various mar- kets nationwide discussing the change. Alterations to facilities' signage and logos, excluding the system's joint-venture locations, will take place in January 2019. n

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