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18 Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago): 894 beds. Northwest- ern Memorial Hospital is the primary teaching affiliate of the Feinberg School of Medicine. e hospital is the flagship facility of Northwest- ern Medicine, which includes 4,400 aligned physicians and hundreds of locations in the Chicago area. In 2019-20, U.S. News & World Report ranked Northwestern Memorial Hospital among the top 10 hospitals in the nation. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles): 886 beds. Found- ed in 1902 as a 12-bed hospital, Cedars-Sinai has turned into a health system with more than 40 locations around Los Angeles and 4,500 physicians and nurses. e hospital reports 50,300 ad- missions and 794,317 outpatient visits per year. It also supports 14,525 full-time employees and a 2,166-member medical staff. Research is also prioritized at Cedars-Sinai, with 1,845 research projects systemwide. Medical City Dallas: 876 beds. Medical City Dallas includes 100 spe- cialties and more than 1,500 physicians. Medical City treats adult and pediatric patients who travel from more than 75 countries for treat- ment. e hospital was tied for the No. 5 ranking by U.S. News & World Report 2019-20 best hospitals in Dallas-Fort Worth. Hartford (Conn.) Hospital: 867 beds. Hartford Hospital is a region- al referral center that includes a 114-bed mental health facility and 104-bed long term care facility. e hospital has around 1,280 phy- sicians and dentists on its medical staff and more than 7,000 nurses and staff members. Lakeland (Fla.) Regional Health Medical Center: 864 beds. Lake- land Regional Medical Center is part of a health system that includes a 550-member medical staff and 25-plus specialties. e hospital reports around 210,020 emergency department visits per year and more than 1,300 trauma visits annually. U.S. News & World Report named Lake- land Regional Health Medical Center among the top 25 hospitals in Florida for 2019-20. NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center (New York City): 862 beds. As the flagship hospital for a seven-campus health system, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital has more than 6,500 affiliated physicians and 20,000 employees. U.S. News & World Report ranked the hospital among the top 20 hospitals in the nation for 2019-20. Mercy Hospital St. Louis: 859 beds. Mercy Hospital is a level 1 trauma center and level 3 neonatal intensive care unit. e hospital has earned a spot on the IBM Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals list and CMS 5-Star Hospital rating. Mercy Hospital St. Louis has 317 locations, 1 million outpatient visits and 89,054 emergency visits during fiscal year 2018. Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center of Aurora Health Care (Milwau- kee): 854 beds. St. Luke's Medical Center partnered with Samaritan- Medical Center in 1984 to form Aurora Health Care, which has grown to include more than 15 hospitals and 150 clinics. e system merged with Advocate Health Care in 2018. U.S. News & World Report ranked St. Luke's Medical Center the No. 2 hospital in Wisconsin in 2019-20. Texas Heart Institute at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center (Houston): 850 beds. Texas Heart Institute at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center has recorded more than 250,000 cardiac catheterizations, 115,000 open heart surgeries and 1,450 heart transplants since its inception. Its spe- cialists treat patients form more than 75 countries. U.S. News & World Report ranked the hospital among the top 25 hospitals in the nation for cardiology and heart surgery in 2019-20. omas Jefferson University Hospital (Philadelphia): 837 beds. omas Jefferson University Hospital is the flagship facility of Jeffer- son Health. As of June 2018, the hospital reported 39,970 inpatient vis- its and 1.3 million outpatient visits annually. e hospital has around 2,580 physicians and practitioners and nearly 9,000 employees. e University of Kansas Hospital (Kansas City): 831 beds. Univer- sity of Kansas Hospital is an academic medical center with 23 accred- ited residency programs and 30-plus research institutes and centers. In 2018, University of Kansas Hospital ranked No. 5 among academic hos- pitals in the nation and received Vizient's Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership award. Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center (Houston): 832 beds. Founded in 1925, Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center has ex- panded to include a certified level 1 trauma center, and it serves more than 40,000 patients per year in its emergency and trauma center. e hospital earned the 2014 UHC Quality Leadership award. e hospital has a partnership with the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, providing access to 700 physicians to the community. Baptist Health - Little Rock (Ark.): 827 beds. Baptist Health - Little Rock is a faith-based hospital with a heart, orthopedic and women's health center. It is part of the Arkansas-based Baptist Health system, which includes more than 11,000 employees and 1,500 physicians. e system also includes around 100 primary care and specialty clinics in Arkansas and Oklahoma. Orlando (Fla.) Regional Medical Center: 808 beds. Orlando Regional Medical Center is the flagship hospital for Orlando Health, providing medical care, rehabilitation and a brain injury rehab program. Orlando Regional Medical Center is also a level 1 trauma center, serving 85,000 patients per year. e center has also earned the silver Beacon Award for Excellence from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center (Winston-Salem, N.C.): 797 beds. Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is an academic medical cen- ter that serves residents of 24 counties in North Carolina and south- west Virginia. e hospital was founded in 1902 as a medical school for Wake Forest College and has since grown to include more than 100 buildings and 14,000 employees. e hospital also participates in the American Hospital Association's #123forEquality Campaign to pro- mote equitable healthcare delivery. Mayo Clinic Hospital – Methodist Campus (Rochester, Minn.): 794 beds. Mayo Clinic Hospital - Methodist Campus is an integrated medical center that includes a transplant program as well as several specialists. e hospital has 41 operating rooms as well as a women's cancer program and vascular center. ProMedica Toledo (Ohio) Hospital: 794 beds. ProMedica Toledo Hos- pital serves a 27-county area in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan. e hospital has more than 4,800 employed healthcare professionals as well as 1,000 affiliated physicians. Healthgrades honored the hospital as one of the 50 Best Hospitals in the nation through 2015 to 2017. Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston): 793 beds. Brigham and Women's Hospital is the flagship institution for Brigham Health, which has more than 1,000 inpatient beds and 1,200 physicians providing care at its locations. Brigham and Women's Hospital is also a teaching affili- ate of Boston-based Harvard Medical School, and the health system has nearly 5,000 scientists and physician investigators. University of Maryland Medical Center (Baltimore): 789 beds. The University of Maryland Medical Center is the flagship hospital of the University of Maryland Medical System in Baltimore. It has more than 10,000 employees and 1,000 faculty physicians. In 2018, the hospital reported more than 420,000 outpatient visits and more than 33,000 admissions at both its downtown and midtown campus- es. UMMC has earned the Beacon Award for Excellence, a national award for critical care.