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Awards and Ratings

U.S. News & World Report
For the sixth year in a row, Abbott Northwestern Hospital is cited as one of the country’s best hospitals. In 2007, the hospital was ranked in eight specialty areas in the 18th annual edition of U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Hospitals." The publication ranks 173 top medical centers, from a total of 5,462 facilities.

Abbott Northwestern was ranked in eight of 12 specialties where hospital ability is measured by reputation, mortality data and other care-related factors: 

• #28 in heart and heart surgery
• #22 in neurology and neurosurgery
• #27 in orthopedics
• #43 in cancer
• #23 in endocrinology
• #43 in geriatrics
• #48 in gynecology
• #33 in digestive disorders

More information about the rankings, including information on the methodology, is available at USNews.com/usnews.

Solucient
Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis has been named one of the nation's 100 top cardiovascular hospitals by Evanston, Ill.-based Solucient®. The annual Solucient award for cardiovascular services objectively measures performance on key criteria at the nation's top performing acute-care hospitals.

The 2005 Solucient 100 Top Hospitals®: Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success study appears in the Oct. 31 edition of Modern Healthcare magazine.

More information on this study and other 100 Top Hospitals research is available at Solucient's Top Hospitals web site.

AARP’s Modern Maturity
In 2002, rated #26 in the top 50 hospitals in America list, published in AARP "Modern Maturity’s." The report is based off a study by Consumers’ Checkbook, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit consumer education organization.

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