Shannon Ranked Among Top Texas Hospitals

Shannon Medical Center has been recognized as one of the best hospitals for 2015-16 in Texas by U.S. News & World Report. The annual U.S. News Best Hospitals rankings, now in their 26th year, recognize hospitals that excel in treating the most challenging patients. 

“Being ranked as the number 23 hospital in Texas, and as a high performer in areas of care, shows our commitment to quality and accessible healthcare for our area,” says Bryan Horner, President and CEO of Shannon Medical Center. “At Shannon, our mission is to provide exceptional care for our family, friends and neighbors in West Texas. We are fortunate to have Associates and Physicians who provide that exceptional care each day.”

Shannon also ranked as a High Performing Hospitals for Common Care in Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and Heart Failure.

For 2015-16, U.S. News evaluated hospitals in 16 adult specialties and ranked the top 50 in most of the specialties. Less than 3 percent of the nearly 5,000 hospitals that were analyzed for Best Hospitals 2015-16 were nationally ranked in even one specialty. 

“A Best Hospital has demonstrated expertise in treating the most challenging patients,” said Ben Harder, chief of health analysis at U.S. News. “A hospital that emerged from our analysis as one of the best has much to be proud of.”

In rankings by state and metro area, U.S. News recognized hospitals that perform nearly at the level of their nationally ranked peers in one or more specialties, as well as hospitals that excel in multiple common procedures and conditions.

U.S. News publishes Best Hospitals to help guide patients who need a high level of care because they face particularly difficult surgery, a challenging condition or extra risk because of age or multiple health problems. Objective measures such as patient survival and safety data, adequacy of nurse staffing and other data largely determined the rankings in most specialties.

The specialty rankings and data were produced for U.S. News by RTI International, a leading research organization based in Research Triangle Park, N.C. U.S. News used the same data, as well as the new Best Hospitals for Common Care ratings, first published in May, to produce the state and metro rankings.

The rankings are freely available at http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals and will appear in the U.S. News “Best Hospitals 2016” guidebook, available in August from the U.S. News Store.