The University of Pennsylvania Health System will not participate in the U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking of hospitals. The decision by the perennially highly ranked health system added to a growing revolt against the lists by prominent schools.
Kevin B. Mahoney, chief executive of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, said his moment of clarity came when someone asked how a decision to save a hospital in a low-income neighborhood might affect their place in the rankings. “I think we should be doing the right thing, not chasing the rankings” done by a for-profit company, he said. “It just seemed to have taken on a life of its own, and it started to work its way into decisions we were making. And I didn’t think that was healthy.
In January, many top medical schools walked away from the rankings. Harvard Medical School’s dean, George Q. Daley, wrote in a message to the school that the ranking system creates “perverse incentives for institutions to report misleading or inaccurate data,” among other concerns.The Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian have been included in the U.S. News “Honor Roll” — the publication’s Top 20 lists of hospitals — for the past 16 years.
Gertler wrote that the methodology evolves each year to reflect changes in health care and in response to clinicians, hospital leaders and others. This year’s rankings, he noted, will be the first to include measures of patient outcomes following outpatient surgeries, reflecting the growing role of outpatient care.Penn Medicine officials acknowledged that U.S. News may continue to rank its hospitals, but they said it will no longer participate in the process or promote the results.
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