‘Newsweek’ Names SMH Among World’s Best Hospitals

Sarasota Memorial was recently recognized among the world’s best hospitals in Newsweek’s fourth annual global ranking of hospitals.

This is the fourth year that Newsweek, in collaboration with global market research and consumer data company Statista Inc., has published the global list. The World’s Best Hospitals 2022 list recognizes the best medical institutions across 27 countries, including 414 hospitals in the United States.

SMH has made the list four years in a row. It is the only hospital in southwest Florida ever to make the list since the global rankings began in 2018.

“These honors demonstrate our team’s expertise and commitment to provide our community with world-class care,” said Sarasota Memorial CEO David Verinder. “I couldn’t be prouder of Sarasota Memorial’s physicians and staff.”

While many medical institutions struggled with these challenges over the course of the pandemic, what has set the world’s leading hospitals apart is their continued ability to deliver the highest-quality patient care and conduct critical medical research even as they focused on battling COVID, said Newsweek Global Editor in Chief Nancy Cooper.

How do the leading hospitals maintain their top status in the midst of a global pandemic? By having clear and embraced missions, visionary leadership, and attracting the best people focused on developing new approaches to care and making care better, she noted.

“The ability and drive to continually innovate is key—and top talent is at the heart of that,” Cooper said. “Indeed, as the fourth annual ranking of the World’s Best Hospitals by Newsweek and Statista shows, consistency in excellence is the hallmark of these institutions, with familiar names dominating the list.”

Newsweek compiles the list to help consumers discover the ways leading hospitals are shaping the future of medicine. Hospitals are selected based on numerous performance indicators, including a survey of doctors, health care professionals and administrators across four continents. Results are checked for quality assurance by a global board of renowned medical experts.