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37 QUALITY IMPROVEMENT & MEASUREMENT The No. 1 hospital in each state for 2020-21 By Katie Adams U .S. News & World Report released its Best Hospitals rankings for 2020-21 on July 28. Below is a list of each state's top-ranked hospital. Alabama: University of Alabama at Birming- ham Hospital Alaska: Alaska Native Medical Center (An- chorage) Arkansas: UAMS Medical Center (Little Rock) Arizona: Mayo Clinic (Phoenix) California: UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles) Colorado: UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital (Aurora) Connecticut: Yale New Haven Hospital Delaware: ChristianaCare (Newark) Florida: UF Health Shands Hospital (Gaines- ville) and Mayo Clinic (Jacksonville) Georgia: Emory University Hospital (Atlanta) Hawaii: Queen's Medical Center (Honolulu) Iowa: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clin- ics (Iowa City) Idaho: St. Luke's Regional Boise Medical Center Illinois: Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago) Indiana: Indiana University Health Medical Center (Indianapolis) Kansas: University of Kansas Hospital (Kan- sas City) Kentucky: University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital (Lexington) Louisiana: Ochsner Medical Center (New Orleans) Massachusetts: Massachusetts General Hos- pital (Boston) Maryland: Johns Hopkins Hospital (Balti- more) Maine: Maine Medical Center (Portland) Michigan: University of Michigan Hospital (Ann Arbor) Minnesota: Mayo Clinic (Rochester) Missouri: Barnes-Jewish Hospital (St. Louis) Mississippi: Mississippi Baptist Medical Center (Jackson) Montana: St. Patrick Hospital (Missoula) North Carolina: Duke University Hospital (Durham) North Dakota: Sanford Medical Center (Fargo) Nebraska: Nebraska Medicine Nebraska Medical Center (Omaha) Nevada: Carson Tahoe Health (Carson City) and Renown South Meadows Medical Center (Reno) New Hampshire: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon) New Jersey: Morristown Medical Center (part of Atlantic Health) New Mexico: Presbyterian Hospital (Albu- querque) New York: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (New York City) Ohio: Cleveland Clinic Oklahoma: Integris Baptist Medical Center (Oklahoma City) and St. Francis Hospital (Tulsa) Oregon: OHSU Hospital (Portland) Pennsylvania: Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (Philadelphia) Rhode Island: Miriam Hospital (Providence) South Carolina: Medical University of South Carolina Medical Center (Charleston) South Dakota: Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center (Sioux Falls) Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville) Texas: Houston Methodist Hospital Utah: University of Utah Hospital (Salt Lake City) Virginia: University of Virginia Medical Center (Charlottesville) Vermont: University of Vermont Medical Center (Burlington) Washington: University of Washington Med- ical Center (Seattle) Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Hospi- tals (Madison) West Virginia: West Virginia University Hospitals (Morgantown) Wyoming: Aspen Mountain Medical Center (Rock Springs) n Black, Hispanic Americans more likely to die of COVID-19 at younger ages, CDC finds By Mackenzie Bean N onwhite and Hispanic people under age 65 are dying from COVID-19 more often than white Americans in the same age group, according to CDC data cited by STAT. About 35 percent of COVID-19 deaths among Hispanic Americans and 30 percent of deaths among non-white Americans involved people under age 65. In comparison, just 13.2 percent of white Americans under 65 have died from the virus, even though non-white Americans in the U.S. are generally younger. Overall, 33.9 percent of people under age 65 who died were Hispanic, even though this group accounts for just 20 percent of the U.S. population under 65. Similar trends were seen for Black, Asian and other nonwhite Americans. The findings are based on a CDC analysis of 10,457 COVID-19 deaths from 16 jurisdictions between Feb. 12 and April 24. The agency requested ad- ditional demographic and clinical data for these cases, including race and ethnicity information. n