Advisory Board October 23, 2024
Healthgrades on Tuesday released its 2025 Specialty Excellence Awards and Five-Star Specialty Care Ratings, recognizing more than 4,500 hospitals with “outstanding clinical performance” in 31 common procedures across 16 specialty care areas.
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Details on the awards
For the 2025 Specialty Excellence Awards, Healthgrades evaluated U.S. hospitals’ performances and assessed the clinical outcomes of 31 procedures and conditions across 16 specialty care areas, including:
- Cardiac care
- Cardiac surgery
- Coronary intervention
- Cranial neurosurgery
- Critical care
- Gastrointestinal care
- Gastrointestinal surgery
- Joint replacement
- Neurosciences
- Orthopedic surgery
- Prostate surgery
- Pulmonary care
- Spine surgery
- Stroke care
- Surgical care
- Vascular surgery
Hospitals were then awarded between one and five stars to signify their...