MUSC wins praise from U.S. News and World Report

The Medical University of South Carolina Medical Center has been named by U.S. News and World Report as one of the country’s best hospitals in the treatment of digestive disorders.

The rankings were published in the magazine’s July 22 issue, which appeared on the newsstands July 15.

This is the sixth straight year that MUSC’s Digestive Disease Center was named to the list. It is ranked No. 14 out of the total of 50 hospitals that the magazine listed as being top facilities in the country—moving up from 24th place last year.

To be ranked, a hospital first must either belong to the Council of Teaching Hospitals, be affiliated with a medical school, or have at least nine technology services out of a prescribed list of 17. That narrowed the field to 1,958 this year.

Eligibility for ranking in 13 of the 17 specialties, including digestive diseases, depends on performing a specified number of defined procedures during the past four years for which data is available or being named by at least one physician in U.S. News surveys during the past four years.