Bordeaux and Lille are at the top of Le Point’s list of the 50 best public hospitals studied for the quality of their medical or surgical specialties.
It is an upset ranking that unveils this Thursday Point in its 19th edition of the list of the 50 best public hospitals. Ranked according to the quality of their medical or surgical specialties, the list is as follows: the Bordeaux University Hospital (1st) comes first, while the Lille University Hospital comes second this year. An upheaval since this establishment had been in the lead for several years.
The bronze medal goes to Toulouse University Hospital (3rd, down), followed by Strasbourg University Hospitals (4th), Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris (5th), Nantes University Hospital (6th, up ), Grenoble University Hospital (7th, up), Montpellier University Hospital (8th, down), Rouen (9th, up) and Rennes (10th, down).
To appear in the final ranking of this independent list, the magazine reminds that an establishment must provide a complete medical and surgical service. Specialized establishments are therefore excluded, but appear in specific classifications (cancers, childhood illnesses, etc.).
The best clinic in Ille-et-Vilaine
Regarding clinics, Brittany won the gold medal. With the private hospital Saint-Grégoire (Ille-et-Vilaine) which comes in first place for the 7th consecutive year. This in front of the Nouvelles Cliniques Nantes (Loire-Atlantique). The best establishment in intramural Paris, the Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire clinic, appears only in 37th place.
In addition, the thematic rankings cover, like last year, a wide range of treatments. The list is indeed very long: varicose veins, cancers, cerebrovascular accidents-stroke, eye surgery – cataract, myopia, retina -, surgery for obesity, arteries, spine, trauma emergencies, trauma the face, pediatrics, pulmonology, infectious diseases, depression, schizophrenia and anorexia …
In addition, the 2016 ranking includes two unprecedented rankings, one on leukemia and the other on lymphomas. Finally, several articles accompany this list produced by François Malye and Jérôme Vincent, including an investigation into medication errors which could lead to at least 1,000 deaths per year in French hospitals, they report.
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