Burlington's Lahey Hospital Highest Ranked In MA By Healthgrades

BURLINGTON, MA — Burlington's Lahey Hospital and Medical Center has been ranked among the 50 best hospitals in 36 eligible states and Washington D.C. in the new rankings by Healthgrades.

Lahey, located at 41 Mall Rd., was the only hospital in Massachusetts to be ranked among the top 50 in the 2023 America's Best Hospitals rankings.

To determine the rankings, Healthgrades — a marketplace that helps people find doctors and hospitals — evaluated clinical performance for nearly 4,500 hospitals across more than 31 of the most common procedures and conditions. Healthgrades also measured the hospitals across 18 key specialty areas.

In the rankings, Lahey was named among America's 100 Best for: critical care, gastrointestinal care, gastrointestinal surgery, pulmonary care and stroke care.

The hospital also received the Excellence Award for cranial neurosurgery and neurosciences.

"Healthgrades makes it easy for consumers to choose a doctor based on the three factors that matter most: compatibility, relevant experience, and the quality of the hospital where you'll be treated," said Burt Kann, executive vice president and head of product at Healthgrades. "With these awards, we are helping consumers identify the highest quality care in their community by celebrating the hospitals that consistently deliver better-than-expected clinical outcomes."

A recent Healthgrades survey found that 64 percent of consumers are more concerned about their health now than before the pandemic. More than half (57 percent) are more concerned today than before the pandemic about the quality of care provided by hospitals and their doctors.

"By making hospital performance more transparent, Healthgrades helps increasingly engaged consumers become informed healthcare customers," Healthgrades said in a statement. "Ensuring that patients have access to objective measures of hospital performance is particularly important as the gap between the nation's highest and lowest performers persists."

Healthgrades said it measures hospital quality for conditions and procedures based solely on clinical outcomes to help consumers understand and compare hospital performance to support their care choices. Further details about the methodology used by Healthgrades to determine its rankings are available online.

Three other Massachusetts hospitals made the top 250 in Healthgrades' 2023 America's Best Hospitals rankings, they were: Lawrence General Hospital in Lawrence, North Shore Medical Center in Salem and NSMC Union Hospital in Lynn.