A popular magazine has released its yearly nationwide hospital rankings and several hospitals in Lake and McHenry counties ranked among the top in Illinois.
U.S. News and World Report announced on Tuesday its 2024-2025 Best Hospitals rankings.
The report, which has been conducted for the past 35 years, evaluates nearly 5,000 hospitals in more than 30 medical and surgical services.
“Choosing the right hospital to match your needs shouldn’t be a guessing game,” said Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor at U.S. News.
“The 2024-2025 edition of Best Hospitals provides patients and their families clear, data-driven insights on hospital performance and empowers Americans to choose the facility best suited to their specific health care needs,” Harder said.
U.S. News and World Report said they evaluated each hospital’s performance on objective measures such as risk-adjusted mortality rates, preventable complications and level of nursing care.
The Best Hospitals Specialty rankings methodology and Procedures & Conditions ratings methodology measure patient outcomes using data from millions of records provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
In Illinois, Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago and Rush University Medical Center in Chicago both tied for first place in the state.
In Lake County, Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington and Northwestern Medicine Hospital in Lake Forest both tied for eighth place in the state.
Advocate Good Shepherd was nationally recognized as one of the top 50 hospitals in the country for orthopedics.
The hospital was also among the top 10% of hospitals in the nation deemed “high performing” in gastroenterology and GI surgery, geriatrics, and pulmonology and lung surgery.
Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville ranked at 20th place. It was also recognized as “high performing” in orthopedics.
“We are honored that 6 of our hospitals are among the best in Illinois – the most of any health system in the state,” said Dia Nichols, President of Advocate Health Care.
“Our dedicated physicians, nurses, and teammates work tirelessly every day to meet the dynamic needs of our community and provide them with the highest quality care possible,” Nichols said.
In McHenry County, Northwestern Medicine Hospitals in McHenry, Huntley and Woodstock ranked at 13th place in the state.