Claim: Two-thirds of the top-rated hospitals in Florida were our hospitals.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: South Miami, Florida
text: one of seven hospitals in the Baptist Health South Florida system. The hospital was recognized as a Magnet Hospital for Nursing Excellence in 2004 and again in 2008, by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. It was also on Solucient's list of top 100 hospitals in the country and earned the Florida Governor's Sterling Award in 2010. It was named the No. 1 hospital in South Florida by "U.S. News & World Report" in 2012, and ranked No. 42 in the country in geriatrics and No. 47 in orthopedics. The Hospital features an addiction treatment program, a cardiac catheterization lab, a

title: Florida Hospital Heartland Medical Center
text: three better, seven average and two worse. FHHMC was awarded the 2012 HealthGrades Orthopedics Surgery Award. Patient satisfaction ratings for the hospital are sparse and are listed on a number of websites. However, since they are few in number and not based on objective survey questions, they tend to be anecdotal and possibly not dependable. FHHMC has outlying physician offices and clinics in a large number of places in Sebring and Avon Park. Many of these are on Sun N' Lake Boulevard, across the street from the hospital campus. These include various administrative offices and various physician offices. Also, on

title: Mayo Clinic Florida
text: hospital care . In a 2008 examination of 5,453 United States hospitals, US News & World Report ranked the facility 23rd in adult specialization for rheumatology and 46th in adult specialization for gastrointestinal disorders.. In another U.S. News rating, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville was rated as a Nationally Ranked Hospital in 7 Adult Specialties, a Regionally Ranked Hospital #1 in Florida and #1 in the Jacksonville metro area, and Rated High Performing in 3 Adult Specialties and 9 Adult Procedures/Conditions . The three main buildings are the Davis Building, the Mayo Building (including the hospital) and the Cannaday Building. They are

title: Bartow Regional Medical Center
text: HealthGrades provided data on rated patient outcomes in eighteen specialties. Outcomes for these specialties while patients were still in the hospital were rated. Fifteen of these specialties were rated as average (3 stars). None was rated as worse (1 star) and three were rated better than average (5 stars). It should be pointed out this rating scheme only allows three options to be recorded, 1, 3 or 5 stars; there are no options of giving 2 or 4 stars. Bartow Regional Medical Center Bartow Regional Medical Center is a hospital in Bartow, Florida. It is owned by non-profit health care

title: Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital
text: Award in the first year it was awarded in 2009 and received it again for six straight years. The distinction indicates a hospital is among the nation's top 15 percent in patient experience. To identify the top-performing hospitals, HealthGrades analyzed survey results for hospitals nationwide that participated in a federal initiative by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. For four of those years (from 2010-13), OLBH ranked among the top five percent in the nation for patient experience based on an analysis of patient surveys from 3,775 hospitals. In 2015, the Kentucky

title: UF Health Shands Hospital
text: research institutions devoted to the challenges resulting from brain and nervous system disorders. In 2004, Shands at the University of Florida once again joined the prestigious ranks of America's top medical institutions in the 15th annual U.S. News & World Report guide to "America's Top Hospitals." Included among the nation's 50 top academic medical centers, Shands at UF is recognized in 12 clinical specialty areas in 2012's comprehensive report for excellence. Specialty Ranks: Urology (20), Pulmonology (31), Neurology & Neurosurgery (32), Cancer (36), Nephrology (37), Gastroenterology (41), Cardiology & Heart Surgery (47). The following specialties were also recognized as being

title: Tampa, Florida
text: host to over 20 hospitals, four trauma centers, and multiple Cancer treatment centers. Three of the area's hospitals were ranked among "America's best hospitals" by US News and World Report. Tampa is also home to many health research institutions. The major hospitals in Tampa include Tampa General Hospital, St. Joseph's Children's & Women's Hospital, James A. Haley Veterans Hospital, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, and The Pepin Heart Institute. Shriners Hospitals for Children is based in Tampa. USF's Byrd Alzheimer's Institute is both a prominent research facility and Alzheimer's patient care center in Tampa. Along with human

title: Florida Hospital Heartland Medical Center
text: fountain was put into it. The lake has at times been home to alligators, various birds and fish and to large turtles. The smaller lake was only somewhat landscaped and is the only one where fishing is allowed. These are known as Florida Hospital lakes. The administrator of the hospital also serves as the administrator of the Florida Hospital Heartland Division, of which FHHMC is the largest part. Hoovers says FHHMC has 1,200 employees. The HealthGrades website provides information about FHHMC's scores on twelve patient safety indicators. There are three possible ratings: better, average and worse. FHHMC's latest score was

title: Larkin Community Hospital
text: W 49th Pl, Hialeah, FL 33012. In 2013 LCH was named Top Urban Hospital by The Leapfrog Group. The Top Hospitals award is widely recognized as the nations most competitive hospital quality award. Larkin Community Hospital Larkin Community Hospital (LCH) is a for-profit 146-bed general medical, surgical and psychiatric teaching hospital. In the last year with available data, LCH had about 7,523 emergency department visits and 5,792 admissions. Physicians at the hospital performed 794 inpatient and 739 outpatient surgeries. LCH is the only hospital in Miami-Dade County with an Area of Critical Need designation by the Florida Board of Medicine.

title: U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals Rankings
text: differently, with 8% of graded hospitals having a similar position in each other's rankings. In larger urban areas with multiple hospitals, the two ranking systems made different recommendations in 81% of cases. U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals Rankings The U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals Rankings is a hospital rating publication of "U.S. News & World Report". In 1997 one research team said that the value of the ratings were limited because at that time public medical data was difficult to access, and a lack of quality data limited the usefulness of any ratings. In 2001 a

title: Detroit Medical Center
text: commercials, and presents the Emery King Healthcare Video Library at the Detroit Medical Center's website. Two of the Detroit Medical Center hospitals ranked in the top one percent in heart failure outcomes in the U.S. DMC Harper University Hospital and DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital ranked above the national average in a survey compiled by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services. The list included data from 4,807 hospitals across the United States. Of those hospitals, only 38 were ranked above the national average. The results are meant to assist the public in

title: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
text: a 571-bed hospital operated by the Sisters of Mercy, was named by HealthGrades as one of the 50 best hospitals in the country for 2007. Fort Lauderdale is served by English-language newspapers "South Florida-Sun Sentinel" and "The Miami Herald", Spanish-language newspapers "El Sentinel", "El Nuevo Herald" and an alternative newspaper "New Times Broward-Palm Beach. As is true of many parts of Florida, the city's population has a strong seasonal variation, as snowbirds from the northern United States, Canada, and Europe spend the winter and early spring in Florida. The city is known for its beaches, bars, nightclubs, and history as

title: Orlando Health
text: Institute (CHI), created by a partnership with Miami Children’s Hospital. Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children was ranked as one of the nation's Top 30 pediatric hospitals for heart care and heart surgery by U.S. News & World Report, in their 2008 edition of America’s Best Children’s Hospitals. The Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies is a 285-bed hospital facility located in downtown Orlando, Florida. Winnie Palmer Hospital is the third largest birthing center in the United States and provides complete women’s care from obstetrics and high-risk births to gynecological services. Annually, more than 14,500 babies are born at Winnie

title: Florida Hospital Celebration Health
text: began in 2002, and in 2006 was recognized as a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence by the American Society for Bariatric Surgery. In 2004 its Imaging Center introduced Max & Buddy The Bear - the first animatronics in a hospital setting. In 2002 it conducted its first minimally invasive hip replacement surgery. A Joint Replacement Center opened in 2007. In early 2011, the hospital announced it would increase the number of beds available from 112 beds to 174 beds. Florida Hospital Celebration Health has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as "One of America's Best Hospitals" for ten

title: Yisrael Mordecai Safeek
text: with trademarked motto "Recognizing Healthcare Excellence® celebrated five years of releasing US hospitals ratings. 100 SafeCare Hospitals® represent one hundred high performing hospitals in the areas of low rates of infections, low complications, low readmissions, great value, and high patient satisfaction. Hospitals are selected based on metrics that became part of the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) hospitals pay-for-performance programs of HVBP, HACRP, and HRRP. Only about two percent of US hospitals earn the prestigious 100 SafeCare Hospitals® distinction, with the top 50 hospitals representing the top one percent of US hospitals. The Mayo Clinic has consistently been ranked

title: U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals Rankings
text: accepted, cited, and used to make decisions by all sorts of stakeholders. The public image of the rankings was that they were unbiased. A 2005 study considered "US News" ratings with "Hospital Compare", which is a rating published by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. That study found that the two ratings systems frequently made different recommendations for the best hospitals. A 2009 study said that when a hospital's place in "US News" rankings changed, then consequently there could be as much as a 5% change in certain kinds of patient admissions to that hospital which might be attributed to

title: Florida Hospital
text: Florida Hospital Florida Hospital is an acute-care, not-for-profit healthcare organization based in Orlando, Florida. With 25 distinct hospital campuses from the east coast to the west coast of Central Florida, the organization is owned and operated by Adventist Health System, a part of the worldwide organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Florida Hospital is ranked nationally in 8 adult specialties and was also high-performing in 4 adult specialties. The main purpose of the Florida Hospital group is medical emergencies and in-patient care. In August 2018, Adventist Health System announced that Florida Hospital will be renamed AdventHealth on January 2, 2019.

title: Orlando Health
text: Palmer Hospital, making it the busiest labor and delivery unit in the state of Florida and one of the busiest in the nation. The hospital is also home to the fourth largest Level III (highest level) Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in the nation. UF Health Cancer Center – Orlando Health is a comprehensive cancer treatment facility located on the downtown campus of Orlando Health. More than 400 team members specialize in treating numerous cancers, while utilizing a team approach to achieve optimal patient treatment and outcome in the Charles Lewis Pavilion. In April, 2012, the cancer center became a

title: Adventist Health System
text: 1 hospital in the state of Florida by U.S. News & World Report. Various departments use to rank among "Best Hospitals" according to U.S. News & World Report: cardiology and heart surgery (#44), diabetes and endocrinology (#16), gastroenterology and GI surgery (#33), geriatrics (#28), gynecology (#13), nephrology (#45), neurology and neurosurgery (#38), pulmonology (#42), and urology (#21). Adventist Health System Headquartered in Altamonte Springs, Florida, Adventist Health System is a non-profit health care organization that operates facilities within the Southern and Midwestern regions of the United States. It will be renamed AdventHealth on January 2, 2019. It is run by

title: Healthgrades
text: and aortic valve repair. A similar study published in "Archives of Surgery" in 2011 evaluated Healthgrades and "US News & World Report" ratings in oncologic surgeries, comparing top-rated hospitals in the two reports to all other U.S. hospitals. The authors determined that both ratings systems had substantive flaws in the evaluation of mortality following pancreatectomy, esophagectomy or colectomy; only the top rated hospitals for colectomy in the "US News & World Report" ratings had a statistically significant lower mortality than national averages—mortality rates at Healthgrades' best hospitals were not significantly lower for any of the three procedures. In 2010, AOL