The U.S. News & World Report has come out with their Best Hospitals Honor Roll list, on which Vanderbilt University Medical Center finally finds itself. U.S. News went a step further to single out VUMC with an extensive write-up by two reporters who spent five days at the hospital complex. The article's a long one, but I think it's great that our hospital is getting some well-deserved praise.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville is no stranger to Best Hospitals—last year it ranked in nine of 16 specialties. But this is the first year it has been named, along with only 18 other facilities, to the elite Honor Roll for its high rankings in multiple specialties. The hospital is huge and growing, with 847 beds; more than 1.2 million patients streamed through its doors in 2007. Most come for routine care, but many come because they need the level of advanced care that only a major referral center can provide.
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