Jefferson Abington Hospital Among Nation's Best Healthcare Facilities

ABINGTON, PA — If you're looking for top-notch health care, Abington has one of the nation's best hospitals, according to Newsweek.

Newsweek partnered with data firm Statista to release the fifth year of this list, which ranked 2,300 hospitals in 80 countries.

Featured facilities are not only innovative and offer first-class care, but also “consistently attract the best people and provide the best outcomes for patients as well as the most important new therapies and research,” according to Newsweek.

Newsweek had good things to say about two Jefferson Health facilities

And Jefferson Abington Hospital in Abington was ranked No. 377 overall.

Lankenau got a score of 62.25 percent.

The ranks were generated after examining an online survey from medical experts, results from patient surveys, hospital quality metrics, and a PROM (patient-reported outcome measures) implementation survey.

Read about the ranking methodology online here.

Nancy Cooper, global editor-in-chief for Newsweek, said the goal of the study was to provide a data-based comparison of hospital reputations and performances across counties.

"We hope this will be useful to patients and families seeking the best care for themselves and loved ones, as well as to hospitals as they benchmark themselves against their peers," Cooper said.

Twenty-six other Pennsylvania hospitals were featured in the rankings.

Among those, Jefferson Health in Philadelphia was ranked No. 54, the second-highest ranked hospital in Pennsylvania.

See the full rankings from Newsweek online here.