Mayo Clinic has been ranked the country’s best hospital for diabetes and endocrinology in U.S. News & World Report.
Others getting high marks include Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital, Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, University of California-San Francisco Medical Center and Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.
The rankings were based in part on recommendations by physicians specializing in diabetes. Nearly two-thirds endorsed Mayo, while close to half named Massachusetts General. Other factors included low death rates, strong nursing standards and a full roster of patient services such as wound-management services defined by U.S. News as key for diabetes care.
More generally, being the best entailed close blood-sugar monitoring, scrupulous procedures for alerting staff when a patient has diabetes, adhering to dietary guidelines and proper scheduling of meals, and follow-up with specialists including nutritionists, ophthalmoloigts and nurse educators.
Other hospitals in the top 10 were Cleveland Clinic, New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
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