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Penn Medicine Pulls Out of U.S. News Hospital Rankings

The pushback regarding U.S. News & World Report’s rankings continues to grow. Earlier this year, following many medical schools forgoing participation in the rankings, a number of high-profile hospitals noted inherent differences between the two lists as justificationopens in a new tab or window for continuing to participate. 
However, on Monday, the University of Pennsylvania Health System, part of Penn Medicine, made a splash when it publicly announced that it will no longer actively participateopens in a new tab or window in the “Best Hospitals” rankings.
Penn Medicine cited a “need for greater transparency and access to more comprehensive quality data beyond the narrow information collected by U.S. News & World Report,” noting that it remains committed to the annual publication of “consistent, objective performance metrics,” and that its leaders hope to work with other systems nationwide to “develop standardized measures for self-reporting on quality and performance.”
“The U.S. News and World Report ‘Best Hospitals’ methodology changes regularly, making it difficult to meaningfully draw conclusions about hospital quality over time, let alone the enormous amount of care provided outside the hospital,” Patrick Brennan, MD, chief medical officer at Penn Medicine, said in the health system’s statement.
“More importantly, these measures do not help us deliver better care for our patients, and they incentivize health systems to expend resources both to compete for placement in the rankings and promote their position on the list. Now is the time to focus our efforts, resources, and workforce talent on delivering the very best care and measuring the most impactful elements in medicine,” he added.

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