Hospitals around the world have been on the front lines of medicine’s ever-evolving war against COVID-19 for two years. According to the experts who helped query the effects of our annual rating of the world’s hospitals, this means learning to adapt temporarily. to demanding new and existing situations and improvising on the fly.
For example, according to Dr. Gary S. Kaplan, former CEO of Virginia Mason Franciscan Health and current senior vice president of CommonSpirit Health, “the pandemic has exacerbated the shortage of fitness workers, especially in nursing. “
David Bates, leader of general internal medicine and number one care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston (No. 17 on Newsweek’s list of the world’s most productive hospitals) says, “We had to convert beds to ICU beds very temporarily and close giant sections of the hospital, and then locate to cover the beds. There were also big demanding situations with managing our supply chain for things like fans and private protective equipment.
Dr. Christoph Meier, Head of the Department of Internal Medicine at Zurich University Hospital (number 15 on our list of world leaders) says: “There are many classes that can be learned from COVID, such as detecting the effectiveness of virtual meetings, valuing the importance of hospital hygiene, and emphasizing the importance of GPs versus specialising in silos. The biggest challenge is the joint definition of individual priorities for a non-unusual goal.
Many medical establishments have faced these and other demanding pandemic situations, yet what sets the world’s leading hospitals apart is their continued ability to provide the highest quality patient care and conduct must-have medical studies, even as they focused on fighting COVID. In fact, as Newsweek and Statista’s fourth annual rating of the world’s most productive hospitals shows, consistency in excellence is the hallmark of those facilities, with familiar names dominating the list and the most sensitive locations.
The hospitals that have weathered the pandemic are the ones that have learned to work faster through better communication and breaking down internal silos, according to Dr. Gregory Katz, Professor of Innovation.
Dr. Jens Deerberg-Wittram, CEO and president of Romed Kliniken, a German nonprofit fitness system, says much of this preparation comes down to being willing to pay for the wheels of accepting people with very poor fitness. “We’ve learned over the curso. de the pandemic,” he says, “that those hospitals are making a difference in a global crisis that manage expensive, resource-intensive infrastructure such as emergency departments, intensive care units, ECMO [extracorporeal membrane oxygen machines], etc. “
How do primary hospitals maintain their leading prestige in the midst of a global pandemic that has disrupted the medical world?The ability and willingness to innovate are often essential, and the most productive skill is at the center of it all. As Bates says, “blue-chip hospitals remain strong in a giant component attracting the most productive people, those who focus on developing new approaches to care and getting better care. “
Kaplan adds, “The most productive hospitals maintain their excellence by having transparent, followed missions and ambitious visions that lead to the fidelity of purpose experienced daily across staff. This will need to be accompanied by leadership consistency and consistency that creates alignment from the boardroom to the front line. “
According to Deerberg-Wittram, “a well-educated mindset, an educational culture, a strong foundation in patient outcomes and an inspiring environment for young people’s ability are the ingredients of a premier hospital that has lasted for decades. “
This year’s rating represents an expanded universe, with 3 new countries on the list (Colombia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates), bringing the total to over 2200 hospitals in 27 countries. the world: Twenty-one countries are represented in the 150 smartest countries in the world. The United States leads with 33 hospitals, followed by Germany with 14 hospitals; Italy and France with 10 each; and South Korea with eight. Overall, there were thirteen new hospitals among the 100 most sensitive this year. Among those who advanced the most in last year’s ranking were No. 14 Universitätsspital Basel, up from 35 last year; Northwest Memorial Hospital No. 28 (58 in 2021); No. 43 Samsung Medical Center Seoul (73) and No. 59 NYU Langone Hospitals of New York (86).
The aim of this study is to provide the best data-driven comparison of hospital reputation and functionality across countries. We hope this will be helpful not only for patients and families seeking the best care for themselves and their loved ones, but also for hospitals comparing themselves to their peers at a time of unprecedented change.
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