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32 32 CEO / STRATEGY US News' Best Hospitals 2021-22 Honor Roll By Mackenzie Bean U .S. News & World Report released its best hospitals rankings for 2021-22 on July 27, with Mayo Clinic earning the top spot for the sixth consecutive year. To compile the 32nd annual ranking, U.S. News compared more than 4,750 hospitals nationwide across 15 specialties and 17 procedures and con- ditions. Data for these rankings come from a pe- riod before the pandemic, U.S. News said. For the 2021-22 list, 175 hospitals were na- tionally ranked in at least one specialty, and 531 hospitals were ranked among the best re- gional hospitals in a state or metro area. U.S. News also published new health equity measures alongside this year's best hospitals list, which did not factor into the rankings. Here are the top 20 hospitals named to U.S. News' 2021-22 Best Hospitals Honor Roll, in- cluding ties: 1. Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.) 2. Cleveland Clinic 3. UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles) 4. Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore) 5. Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston) 6. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles) 7. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (New York City) 8. NYU Langone Hospitals (New York City) 9. UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco) 10. Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago) 11. Michigan Medicine (Ann Arbor) 12. Stanford (Calif.) Hospital 13. Hospitals of the University of Pennsylva- nia-Penn Presbyterian (Philadelphia) 14. Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston) 15. Mayo Clinic (Phoenix) 16. Houston Methodist Hospital 17. Barnes-Jewish Hospital (St. Louis) (tie) 17. Mount Sinai Hospital (New York City) (tie) 19. Rush University Medical Center (Chicago) 20. Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, Tenn.) n 10 states with most for-profit hospitals by percentage By Ayla Ellison M ore than 50 percent of all community hospitals in Ne- vada and Texas are for-profit, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. The Kaiser Family Foundation draws its data from the 2019 AHA Annual Survey of Hospitals. The American Hospital Asso- ciation defines community hospitals as "all nonfederal, short- term general, and specialty hospitals whose facilities and ser- vices are available to the public." Nearly a quarter — 24 percent — of community hospitals in the U.S. were classified as for-profit in 2019, while more than 57 percent were nonprofit and nearly 19 percent were controlled by a state, county or city government. Here are the states with the most for-profit hospitals as of 2019, the latest year from which data is available: 1. Nevada — 53.5 percent of community hospitals are for-profit 2. Texas — 52 percent 3. Florida — 48.1 percent 4. New Mexico — 42.9 percent 5. Arizona — 41.3 percent T-5. Louisiana — 41.3 percent 7. Oklahoma — 39.5 percent 8. Tennessee — 37.5 percent 9. Utah — 34 percent 10. Alabama — 32.7 percent n Big corporations may be eyeing your system's top physician By Molly Gamble T he chief medical officer role has been a mainstay for hospitals and health systems, but COVID-19 is motivating other corporations like PepsiCo, Delta Air Lines and Tyson Foods to add a CMO to their executive teams, according to Bloomberg. Most firms see the need to think differently about em- ployee and customer well-being, which spans beyond disease prevention, while remaining compliant with evolving public health regulations and strengthening business continuity. Stanley Black & Decker, Royal Caribbean Cruises and Constellation Brands — which owns more than 100 brands, including Robert Mondavi Winery, Casa Noble Tequila and Corona beer — also have hired CMOs. "We need to be up to date and understand the many guidelines and adapt," Tom Kane, Constellation's hu- man resources chief, told Harvard Business Review. In fall 2020, the Fortune 500 company hired Tim Ma- lins, MD, a cardiologist from Rochester (N.Y.) Regional Health, as its CMO. Dr. Malins shares health-related advice and expertise to the executive, crisis management and HR leader- ship teams as they navigate the pandemic, according to HBR. He also informs risk assessment and policy rec- ommendations in line with the varying guidelines for the multinational company. n