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Best Hospitals 2017
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by U. S. News and World Report, Avery Comarow (Contribution by), Arlene Weintraub (Contribution by), Courtney Rubin (Contribution by), Beth Howard (Contribution by)
U. S. News and World Report
Best Hospitals 2017
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by U. S. News and World Report, Avery Comarow (Contribution by), Arlene Weintraub (Contribution by), Courtney Rubin (Contribution by), Beth Howard (Contribution by)
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Overview
Now in its 27th year, U.S. News' annual guide to U.S. hospitals helps both consumers and medical professionals find the best hospitals and understand the latest trends in healthcare. Created by a team of leading health journalists and healthcare experts, this popular guidebook provides U.S. News' exclusive rankings of the best adult hospitals and children's hospitals for cancer, orthopedics, cardiology, neurology, and other medical specialties. Plus, rankings of the best hospitals in the 51 largest metro areas, the best diet plans (as chosen by nutrition experts), and the most-recommended over-the-counter products for 80 common conditions and needs. A special section on children's health addresses concussions, weight management, emotional health, and safe pregnancies, and a special section on hospitals safety delves into misdiagnoses, identity errors, and infections. Chapters include: • The 21st Century Hospital • • • • • • Note: Advertisements from universities and other reputable organizations enable us to offer this valuable guidebook at an affordable price. Advertisements do not influence current or future rankings.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781931469777 |
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| Publisher: | U.S. News & World Report |
| Publication date: | 01/03/2017 |
| Series: | Best Hospitals |
| Edition description: | Soft Cover |
| Pages: | 188 |
| Product dimensions: | 7.90(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.60(d) |
About the Author
U.S. News and World Report is a multi-platform publisher of news and analysis, which includes a multi-faceted web site (with 28 million visitors per month) and annual guidebooks on Best Colleges, Best Graduate Schools, and Best Hospitals. Focusing on Health, Money, Education, Travel, Cars, and Public Service/Opinion, U.S. News has earned a reputation as the leading provider of service news and information that improves the quality of life of its readers. U.S. News and World Report's signature franchises includes its News You Can Use® brand of journalism and its Best series of consumer guides that include rankings of colleges, graduate schools, hospitals, mutual funds, diets, health plans, and more.
Anne McGrath is the managing editor of U.S. News & World Report's publications. She has created and implemented the editorial vision for numerous editions of U.S. News' annual "Best" guidebooks — such as Best Colleges, Best Graduate Schools, and Best Hospitals — as well as editing such U.S. News publications as A Parent's Guide to STEM and U.S. News Ultimate Guide to Law Schools. A former high school English teacher, Anne's experience as a magazine journalist includes extensive coverage of education, health, personal finance, and investing.
Avery Comarow is Health Rankings Editor for U.S. News & World Report and is frequently quoted by the news media and health care publications as an authority on evaluating the quality of health care. Avery created U.S. News' Best Hospitals and Best Children's Hospitals rankings and its Best Nursing Homes ratings.
Arlene Weintraub is a science journalist and author with 20 years of experience writing about healthcare, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. Her new book, Heal: The Vital Role of Dogs in the Search for Cancer Cures (ECW Press 2015), brings to life the world of comparative oncology and the many ways dogs are helping in the war on cancer. Her first book, Selling the Fountain of Youth (Basic Books 2010), is an expose on the anti-aging industry.
Courtney Rubin was for five years a London-based staff writer for People magazine. She has reported stories on six continents, in countries including Afghanistan, Cambodia, and Indonesia. Rubin, a former senior writer for Washingtonian magazine, has written for the New York Times magazine, U.S. News & World Report's guidebooks, Time, Marie Claire,The Guardian and other publications. She is the author of The Weight-Loss Diaries (McGraw-Hill, 2004).
A graduate of the Universityof N.C. at Chapel Hill and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Beth Howard worked in New York as an associate editor and in Los Angeles as the West Coast editor for Omni Magazine, covering science and the environment. She served as senior editor at SELF, New Woman (health), and My Generation magazines, and later returned to SELF as editor-at-large. Beth has penned scores of articles for print and digital, including Good Housekeeping, Conceive, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, Glamour, Prevention, Fitness, Ladies’ Home Journal, MORE, AARP: The Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, and Woman’s Day, and has written health columns for Details, Bride’s, Shape, Babytalk, and Reader’s Digest. In 1998, she published the book, Mind Your Body: A Sexual Health and Wellness Guide for Women (St. Martin’s Press).
Katherine Hobson is a health and science writer based in Brooklyn, N.Y. Her articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, FiveThirtyEight, SELF, Money, Nautilus, NPR’s Shots blog and National Geographic online, among other publications.
Margaret Loftus is an award-winning journalist, editor, and content creator specializing in food, travel, higher education, and healthcare. She has worked for a variety of print and digital media outlets including U.S. News & World Report, NationalGeographic.com, and Virtuoso Life magazine. She is a contributingn editor for National Geographic Traveler.
Elizabeth Gardner has been a freelance writer since 1993, focusing on health care business and policy (especially health information technology and measuring the quality of care), medical research, bio- and nanotechnology, and the Internet and electronic commerce. She is a contributing editor for Health Data Management and has written for such publications as Modern Healthcare, Pharmaceutical Executive, Journal of American Health Policy, U.S. News & World Report, Wall Street Journal Europe, Popular Science, Health-IT World, and Crain’s Detroit Business.
Michael Morella is an associate editor for U.S. News & World Report, where he covers education, science, and health for usnews.com and the U.S. News guidebooks.
Anne McGrath is the managing editor of U.S. News & World Report's publications. She has created and implemented the editorial vision for numerous editions of U.S. News' annual "Best" guidebooks — such as Best Colleges, Best Graduate Schools, and Best Hospitals — as well as editing such U.S. News publications as A Parent's Guide to STEM and U.S. News Ultimate Guide to Law Schools. A former high school English teacher, Anne's experience as a magazine journalist includes extensive coverage of education, health, personal finance, and investing.
Avery Comarow is Health Rankings Editor for U.S. News & World Report and is frequently quoted by the news media and health care publications as an authority on evaluating the quality of health care. Avery created U.S. News' Best Hospitals and Best Children's Hospitals rankings and its Best Nursing Homes ratings.
Arlene Weintraub is a science journalist and author with 20 years of experience writing about healthcare, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. Her new book, Heal: The Vital Role of Dogs in the Search for Cancer Cures (ECW Press 2015), brings to life the world of comparative oncology and the many ways dogs are helping in the war on cancer. Her first book, Selling the Fountain of Youth (Basic Books 2010), is an expose on the anti-aging industry.
Courtney Rubin was for five years a London-based staff writer for People magazine. She has reported stories on six continents, in countries including Afghanistan, Cambodia, and Indonesia. Rubin, a former senior writer for Washingtonian magazine, has written for the New York Times magazine, U.S. News & World Report's guidebooks, Time, Marie Claire,The Guardian and other publications. She is the author of The Weight-Loss Diaries (McGraw-Hill, 2004).
A graduate of the Universityof N.C. at Chapel Hill and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Beth Howard worked in New York as an associate editor and in Los Angeles as the West Coast editor for Omni Magazine, covering science and the environment. She served as senior editor at SELF, New Woman (health), and My Generation magazines, and later returned to SELF as editor-at-large. Beth has penned scores of articles for print and digital, including Good Housekeeping, Conceive, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, Glamour, Prevention, Fitness, Ladies’ Home Journal, MORE, AARP: The Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, and Woman’s Day, and has written health columns for Details, Bride’s, Shape, Babytalk, and Reader’s Digest. In 1998, she published the book, Mind Your Body: A Sexual Health and Wellness Guide for Women (St. Martin’s Press).
Katherine Hobson is a health and science writer based in Brooklyn, N.Y. Her articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, FiveThirtyEight, SELF, Money, Nautilus, NPR’s Shots blog and National Geographic online, among other publications.
Margaret Loftus is an award-winning journalist, editor, and content creator specializing in food, travel, higher education, and healthcare. She has worked for a variety of print and digital media outlets including U.S. News & World Report, NationalGeographic.com, and Virtuoso Life magazine. She is a contributingn editor for National Geographic Traveler.
Elizabeth Gardner has been a freelance writer since 1993, focusing on health care business and policy (especially health information technology and measuring the quality of care), medical research, bio- and nanotechnology, and the Internet and electronic commerce. She is a contributing editor for Health Data Management and has written for such publications as Modern Healthcare, Pharmaceutical Executive, Journal of American Health Policy, U.S. News & World Report, Wall Street Journal Europe, Popular Science, Health-IT World, and Crain’s Detroit Business.
Michael Morella is an associate editor for U.S. News & World Report, where he covers education, science, and health for usnews.com and the U.S. News guidebooks.
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