Overview
Johns Hopkins Medicine-Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, MD is rated high performing in 1 adult specialty and 11 procedures and conditions. It is a general medical and surgical facility.
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Quality Rankings & Ratings
To help patients decide where to receive care, U.S. News generates hospital rankings by evaluating data on nearly 5,000 hospitals. To be nationally ranked in a specialty, a hospital must excel in caring for the sickest, most medically complex patients.
Johns Hopkins Medicine-Suburban Hospital is rated in the following adult specialties. Expand to see more information and related rankings.
Patient Experience
Based on surveys from October 2023 to September 2024
Scores are based on surveys given to patients after leaving the hospital. The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey is required of most hospitals and asks patients to rate their hospital stay. Each hospital receives an overall score in each category.
Socioeconomics
U.S. News evaluates hospital performance across socioeconomic groups by analyzing data on historically underserved patient populations.
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Representation of people from vulnerable neighborhoods
The percentage of patients treated by the hospital who live in more disadvantaged neighborhoods, based on the Area Deprivation Index, which compares socioeconomic disadvantage of neighborhoods at the national and state levels.
The percentage of patients treated by the hospital for elective procedures compared to the community. County and state percentages were not included in the calculation of hospital scores.
How successful hospital is in enabling Black patients to live at home during their first 30 days of recovery, with no time or minimal time spent in a hospital, ER or nursing home, compared to White patients at that hospital. May indicate effective inpatient care, follow-up care, and communication of discharge self-care instructions.
Certain data used for socioeconomics was provided by Arcadia CareJourney and the Dartmouth Atlas Data website.
Elements of the Outcome Disparities were developed by Arcadia CareJourney using data accessed securely through the CMS Virtual Research Data Center (VRDC).
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Methodology
U.S. News Best Hospitals are divided into two types of evaluations: 15 specialty rankings (11 for Children’s Hospitals) and 22 procedure and condition ratings.
The specialty rankings are for patients looking for a hospital that excels in treating more serious cases. Hospitals are ranked from 1 to 50 in each specialty. Hospitals not in the top 50 but in the top 10% of all hospitals evaluated are rated “high performing.” Rankings in 12 of the specialties rely largely on objective, publicly available data, such as Medicare claims, and focus on patient outcomes, such as survival rate and the rate at which patients were able to return home rather than needing additional care; patient experience; care-related factors, such as the level of nurse staffing and patient services; and expert opinion based on three years of surveyed specialists who named hospitals to which they would refer their sickest patients. The final three specialties rely only on the expert opinion survey, as much of the care is provided on an outpatient basis and outcomes are not related to survival but rather management of symptoms. The data for Best Children’s Hospitals was collected via an extensive hospital data submission survey as these data are not available in Medicare claims.
The 22 commonly needed procedures and conditions are rated as ‘high performing,’ ‘as expected’ or ‘evaluated.’. We analyzed data from multiple sources, including Medicare and Medicare Advantage claims, to assess the hospital's risk-adjusted outcomes, such as 30-day survival, 30-day readmission and length of stay. These measure how well the hospital performed at the time of care and its ability to prevent an unplanned repeat visit to the hospital. We also factored in variables linked to quality of care, including the number of patients treated, nurse staffing & communication, and participation in public data registries. Patient satisfaction scores from a nationally-administered survey of patients, known as HCAHPS, were factored into the ratings for all procedures and conditions. Expert opinion is not part of these ratings.
To determine the U.S. News Honor Roll, we used both rankings and ratings to identify the 20 top-performing hospitals nationally (10 for Children’s Hospitals). We also recognized about 500 facilities that provide top care in their states, cities and regions as Best Regional Hospitals based on their performance in single-focus care. For more details, read our full methodology description.
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