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28 CEO / STRATEGY US News' Best Hospitals 2022-23 Honor Roll By Kelly Gooch For the seventh consecutive year, Mayo Clinic earned the top spot in the U.S. News & World Report best hospitals rankings. U.S. News released its rankings for 2022-23 on July 26. For the 33rd annual ranking, U.S. News compared nearly 5,000 hospitals nationwide in 15 adult specialties as well as recognized hospitals by state, metropolitan and regional areas for their work in 20 more widely performed procedures and conditions. is year, there were three new cancer ratings added to the methodology: ovarian cancer surgery, prostate cancer surgery and uterine cancer surgery. U.S. News also included expanded health equity measures alongside the 2022-23 list, which are not used in the hospital rankings. For the latest list, 164 hospitals were ranked in at least one specialty, and 494 hospitals were ranked among the best regional hospitals in a state or metro area, compared to 531 last year. Here are the top 20 hospitals named to U.S. News' 2022-23 Best Hospitals Honor Roll, including a tie: 1. Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.) 2. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles) 3. NYU Langone Hospitals (New York City) 4. Cleveland Clinic 5. Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore) (tie) 5. UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles) (tie) 7. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (New York City) 8. Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston) 9. Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago) 10. Stanford (Calif.) Hospital 11. Barnes-Jewish Hospital (St. Louis) 12. UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco) 13. Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian (Philadelphia) 14. Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston) 15. Houston Methodist Hospital 16. Mount Sinai Hospital (New York City) 17. Michigan Medicine (Ann Arbor) 18. Mayo Clinic (Phoenix) 19. Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, Tenn.) 20. Rush University Medical Center (Chicago) n Providence streamlines exec team as part of new operating model By Hayley DeSilva P rovidence, a 52-hospital organization with system offices in Renton, Wash., and Irvine, Calif., is changing to a new operating model that includes a leaner executive team and a new divisional structure. The organization announced the change July 19, pointing to factors in today's healthcare environment such as a national shortage of healthcare workers, inflation and global supply chain disruptions. "As part of our vision of Health for a Better World, the Providence family of organizations has been working to create a more sustainable model of healthcare by 2025, one that makes safe, high-quality care accessible and affordable for everyone. We began this journey before the pandemic, but it has become even more imperative today as health systems across the country face a new reality," Providence President and CEO Rod Hochman, MD, said in a news release. The change includes grouping seven current Providence operating regions into three new divisions, resulting in three divisional teams rather than seven regional senior leadership teams. Providence, in its release, said Erik Wexler, who previously was president of strategy and operations for the health system's southern regions, will serve as COO of Providence. Mr. Wexler will oversee the three new divisions: • South (Southern and Northern California) – Led by Division Chief Executive Kevin Manemann • Central (Eastern Washington, Montana, Oregon, Texas and New Mexico) – Led by Division Chief Executive Joel Gilbertson • North Division (Western Washington and Alaska) – Led by Division Chief Executive Guy Hudson, MD, who will also remain president and CEO of Seattle-based Swedish Health Services Providence also announced the health system is consolidating the leadership of its physician enterprise, ambulatory care network and clinical institutes clinical lines of business under one executive leadership team, led by David Kim, MD, executive vice president, and will go through the process of selecting other divisional leadership team members. Overall, Providence and its partners have nearly 120,000 employees in seven states – Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. n