RUSH University Medical Center has again been named one of the nation's top hospitals, securing a spot on U.S. News & World Report’s prestigious Best Hospitals Honor Roll for the sixth straight year.
Specifically, Rush consistently ranks among the country's best in terms of Quality. Rush was ranked No. 2 in the country in Vizient’s 2024 Quality and Accountability Study, the only hospital rating system that relies solely on patient outcome data for all inpatients. The study compares hospitals in six areas of care: safety, mortality, effectiveness, efficiency, patient centeredness and equity of care. This is the 11th consecutive year Rush has earned the distinction of being among the top 10 for inpatient care, and Rush is one of only two Illinois academic medical centers on Vizient’s Top 10 list for 2024. Rush also ranked fifth in the Vizient Ambulatory Quality and Accountability Award, which measures the quality of outpatient care in five domains: access to care, continuum of care, quality, efficiency and equity. In fact, over the last 5 years, Rush is one of only three hospitals in the nation which have achieved all of the following:
- Been named to the U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll
- Earned five stars from the federal government’s Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital Compare evaluations
- Earned straight A’s on Leapfrog’s Quality and Safety report card
- Been in the top 10 in Vizient’s Quality and Accountability Study
At RUSH, we aim to provide the highest quality, most efficient, safest, cost-conscious care possible. We continually evaluate and re-evaluate our processes of care, including transitions of care, handoffs, algorithms, use of pharmaceuticals, hospital-acquired infections and injuries, safety events, workplace safety, multidisciplinary communications systems, and many other aspects of healthcare.