Tucson Medical Jobs with UMC Recognized
Those with – or looking for – Tucson medical jobs could benefit from a new report that named The University Medical Center Tucson among the nation’s 10 best hospitals.
Becker’s Hospital Review recently released its list of the 10 best hospitals in America for 2009. The organizations included in the list are leaders in quality care and innovation. Most have been recognized by U.S. News & World Report, Thomson Reuters, HealthGrades, The Leapfrog Group, their local communities and other industry associations.
BHR stated that the 38-year-old University Medical Center Tucson made the list because it consistently pushes the quality envelope in many directions. The hospital, which has 355 beds, is part of the Arizona Health Sciences Center, which is located near the University of Arizona Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Public Health.
Although the medical center was part of the university when it was founded in 1971, it is now a separate, non-profit organization that keeps strong ties with the university. UMC Tucson is Arizona’s only academic health sciences center. It also has a presence on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus.
The hospital oversees a large, high-tech research enterprise that recently developed a two-drug therapy to reduce the risk of recurrent colorectal polyps. It also is home to Andrew Weil, MD, who is known for founding integrative medicine and preferring botanical medicines to prescription drugs.
UMC Tucson barely placed in U.S. News’ 2009 specialty rankings, which focus on long-established university centers. However, Thomson Reuters, whose rankings focus on objective measures, this year recognized UMC Tucson on its list of Top Hospitals, naming the hospital as one of only 15 major teaching institutions and giving it the elite Everest Award, which is meant for the top 25 hospitals on the list.
This year, UMC Tucson also won the University HealthSystem Consortium‘s Quality Leadership Award and the Consumer Choice Award for the region from the National Research Corporation, as well as the Magnet Recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center in 2003.
Other hospitals on BHR’s list include:
- Duke University Hospital in Durham, N.C.
- Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore
- Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pa.
- Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston
- Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
- NYU Langone Medical Center in New York
- Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles
- University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers in Ann Arbor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn.