U.S. News and World Report released rankings Tuesday, Aug. 4 labeling Duke University Hospital the best hospital in the Raleigh-Durham metropolitan area.
Top hospitals are ranked 1-50 by specialty, and hospitals that aren’t in the top 50 but are above average in a specialty are labeled high performing. Duke University Hospital in Durham is ranked in eight specialties:
- No. 31 in cardiology, heart and vascular surgery
- No. 28 in diabetes and endocrinology
- No. 29 in geriatrics
- No. 40 in neurology and neurosurgery
- No. 7 in ophthalmology
- No. 28 in pulmonology and lung surgery
- No. 13 in rheumatology
- No. 33 in urology
WakeMed Raleigh Campus is also ranked No. 28 in rehabilitation.
In the newly released rankings, 178 of nearly 4,500 evaluated hospitals earned at least one top-50 national ranking…