Howard Co. General Hospital Ranked as ‘High Performing’

in Columbia was listed as a “high-performing hospital” in a recent U.S. News & World Reports 2011-2012 Best Hospital rankings, a list compiled from data from 5,000 hospitals and 10,000 specialists nationwide.

The hospital, a member of Johns Hopkins Medicine, was ranked as high-performing in the Baltimore metro area in six clinical areas: diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology, geriatrics, neurology and neurosurgery, pulmonology and urology.

To be included in the Metro Area Rankings, a hospital had to score in the top 25 percent among its peers in at least one medical specialty, according to a hospital press release.

Other member hospitals of Johns Hopkins Medicine also were listed in the annual rankings, including The Johns Hopkins Hospital, which took the top spot in the country for the 21^st consecutive year, placing first in five medical specialties and in the top five in 10 others. Also ranked as high-performing hospitals were the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Suburban Hospital and Sibley Memorial Hospital.

The full list of rankings nationally by specialty can be found here.