MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center named in Newsweek's 2024 America’s Best Hospitals rankings in three categories: America's Best Neurological Hospitals 2024, America's Best Cancer Hospitals 2024, and America's Best Orthopedic Hospitals 2024.

“We are incredibly honored to be recognized by Newsweek as America’s Best Hospitals in three of our leading specialties. This recognition underscores our commitment to our community to bring the very best programmatic protocols, technology, and trained staff to ensure we can deliver top-quality healthcare with outstanding patient outcomes."

- Blair Kent, CEO, MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center

These prestigious awards are presented by Newsweek and Statista Inc., the leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider. The 2024 America’s Best Hospitals rankings recognize the leading hospitals in the U.S. across various specialties, highlighting their excellence in patient care and notable treatments. The underlying data analysis is based on four data sources:

  1. Nationwide Online Survey: Healthcare professionals and hospital managers were asked to recommend leading hospitals in their respective fields, with the survey promoted on newsweek.com.
  2. Hospital Quality Metrics: Objective hospital quality metrics were analyzed, focusing on indicators relevant to neurological, oncology, and orthopedic care.
  3. Patient Experience Surveys: Surveys assessing patient experiences during hospitalization.
  4. Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) Implementation Survey: Voluntary surveys to evaluate the extent of PROMs implementation, audits, and data reporting in each hospital's care practice.


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