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26 POPULATION HEALTH 26 CEO / STRATEGY Healthgrades' 50 top hospitals for 2021 By Mackenzie Bean H ealthgrades released its 2021 Ameri- ca's Best Hospitals lists Feb. 9. ree lists feature America's 50, 100 and 250 best hospitals, which represent the top 1 percent, 2 percent and 5 percent of hos- pitals in the nation, respectively. Healthgrades used 2017-19 Medicare data to evaluate the performance of nearly 4,500 U.S. hospitals in the treatment of 32 conditions and procedures, including heart attack, pneumonia and sepsis. Healthgrades found patients treated at a facil- ity designated as one of its 2021 best hospitals had a 27.4 percent lower risk of death com- pared to patients treated at other hospitals. Here are the top 50 U.S. hospitals listed by Healthgrades in 2021. Arizona Chandler Regional Medical Center Mayo Clinic Hospital (Phoenix) St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center (Phoenix) California Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles) Eden Medical Center (Castro Valley) Hoag Hospital Newport Beach Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center Kaiser Permanente San Rafael Medical Center Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center Mills-Peninsula Medical Center (Burlingame) Northridge Hospital Medical Center Providence Holy Cross Medical Center (Mis- sion Hills) Scripps Green Hospital (La Jolla) Sutter Roseville Medical Center Colorado Good Samaritan Medical Center (Lafayette) Poudre Valley Hospital (Fort Collins) Delaware ChristianaCare Christiana Hospital (Newark) Georgia Piedmont Fayette Hospital (Fayetteville) Illinois Amita Health Alexian Brothers Medical Center (Elk Grove Village) Carle Foundation Hospital (Urbana) Palos Community Hospital (Palos Heights) Amita Health Resurrection Medical Center (Chicago) Iowa St. Luke's Hospital (Cedar Rapids) Kansas University of Kansas Hospital (Kansas City) Maryland MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center (Baltimore) Massachusetts Lahey Hospital and Medical Center (Burlington) Newton-Wellesley Hospital (Newton) Michigan Ascension Providence Hospital, Southfield Campus Beaumont Hospital-Royal Oak Campus Beaumont Hospital-Troy Campus Minnesota Mayo Clinic Hospital-Saint Mary's Campus (Rochester) New Jersey Morristown Medical Center Overlook Medical Center (Summit) New York Rochester General Hospital Vassar Brothers Medical Center (Poughkeepsie) North Carolina Mission Hospital (Asheville) Ohio Bethesda North Hospital (Cincinnati) Christ Hospital (Cincinnati) Mercy Health-Fairfield Hospital ProMedica Toledo Hospital Oregon Providence St. Vincent Medical Center (Port- land) Pennsylvania Chester County Hospital (West Chester) Lancaster General Hospital Lankenau Medical Center (Wynnewood) South Carolina Bon Secours St. Francis Downtown (Greenville) Texas Houston Methodist Hospital Washington Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center (Van- couver) EvergreenHealth Medical Center-Kirkland n Amazon hires founders of COVID-19 testing startup By Ayla Ellison A mazon hired several employees of Caspr Biotech, a COVID-19 testing startup, in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19 among Amazon workers, according to Bloomberg. Caspr Biotech's cofounders, CEO Franco Goytia and Chief Strategy Officer Carla Gimenez, were among the employees hired by Amazon. They joined the company in December and are working on a project codenamed Artemis, sources told Bloomberg. Amazon said in 2020 it had begun building a lab to test workers for COVID-19. In February, the company said it was testing about 700 workers an hour, according to Bloomberg. n