Best Hospitals 2017 - Softcover

Report, U. S. News And World

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931469776 ISBN 13: 9781931469777

Publisher: U.S. News & World Report, 2017

Synopsis

Now in its 27th year, U.S. News' annual guide to U.S. hospitals helps both consumers and medical professionals find the best hospitals and understand the latest trends in healthcare. Created by a team of leading health journalists and healthcare experts, this popular guidebook provides U.S. News' exclusive rankings of the best adult hospitals and children's hospitals for cancer, orthopedics, cardiology, neurology, and other medical specialties. Plus, rankings of the best hospitals in the 51 largest metro areas, the best diet plans (as chosen by nutrition experts), and the most-recommended over-the-counter products for 80 common conditions and needs. A special section on children's health addresses concussions, weight management, emotional health, and safe pregnancies, and a special section on hospitals safety delves into misdiagnoses, identity errors, and infections.

Chapters include:
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U.S. News and World Report is a multi-platform publisher of news and analysis, which includes a multi-faceted web site (with 28 million visitors per month) and annual guidebooks on Best Colleges, Best Graduate Schools, and Best Hospitals. Focusing on Health, Money, Education, Travel, Cars, and Public Service/Opinion, U.S. News has earned a reputation as the leading provider of service news and information that improves the quality of life of its readers. U.S. News and World Report's signature franchises includes its News You Can UseŽ brand of journalism and its Best series of consumer guides that include rankings of colleges, graduate schools, hospitals, mutual funds, diets, health plans, and more.

Anne McGrath is the managing editor of U.S. News & World Report's publications. She has created and implemented the editorial vision for numerous editions of U.S. News' annual "Best" guidebooks -- such as Best Colleges, Best Graduate Schools, and Best Hospitals -- as well as editing such U.S. News publications as A Parent's Guide to STEM and U.S. News Ultimate Guide to Law Schools. A former high school English teacher, Anne's experience as a magazine journalist includes extensive coverage of education, health, personal finance, and investing.

Avery Comarow is Health Rankings Editor for U.S. News & World Report and is frequently quoted by the news media and health care publications as an authority on evaluating the quality of health care. Avery created U.S. News' Best Hospitals and Best Children's Hospitals rankings and its Best Nursing Homes ratings.

Arlene Weintraub is a science journalist and author with 20 years of experience writing about healthcare, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. Her new book, Heal: The Vital Role of Dogs in the Search for Cancer Cures (ECW Press 2015), brings to life the world of comparative oncology and the many ways dogs are helping in the war on cancer. Her first book, Selling the Fountain of Youth (Basic Books 2010), is an expose on the anti-aging industry.

Courtney Rubin was for five years a London-based staff writer for People magazine. She has reported stories on six continents, in countries including Afghanistan, Cambodia, and Indonesia. Rubin, a former senior writer for Washingtonian magazine, has written for the New York Times magazine, U.S. News & World Report's guidebooks, Time, Marie Claire,The Guardian and other publications. She is the author of The Weight-Loss Diaries (McGraw-Hill, 2004).

About this edition

• Publisher: U.S. News & World Report
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1931469776
• ISBN 13: 9781931469777
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188
• Editor: McGrath Anne