U.S. News & World Report Names Overlake Medical Center & Clinics Among Best Hospitals for 2024-2025 in the Puget Sound Area

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Overlake Medical Center & Clinics has been named by U.S. News & World Report as a 2024-2025 Best Hospital and has earned a “High Performing” rating—one of the highest distinctions a hospital can earn from the publication—for the following procedures and conditions:

• Colon cancer surgery.
• Diabetes & endocrinology.
• Heart attack.
• Heart failure.
• Hip replacement.
• Kidney failure.
• Knee replacement.
• Pneumonia.
• Stroke.

The annual procedures and conditions ratings are designed to help patients and their healthcare providers make informed decisions about where to receive care for challenging health conditions or elective procedures.

“It’s an honor for Overlake to once again receive this distinguished award from U.S. News & World Report,” says Overlake President and CEO J. Michael Marsh. “Being named a Best Hospital and receiving high-performance recognition for our many clinical specialties and procedures reflect an enduring commitment of our skilled Overlake physicians and teams, who each day deliver exceptional, innovative and compassionate care to our community.”

U.S. News evaluated nearly 5,000 hospitals across 15 specialties and 20 procedures and conditions. Hospitals awarded a “High Performing” designation excelled at factors such as clinical outcomes, level of nursing care and patient experience.

“For 35 years, U.S. News has been a leading resource for patients navigating their health care decisions,” said Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor at U.S. News. “The ‘High Performing’ designation acknowledges hospitals that consistently deliver high-quality care for specific medical procedures and conditions. This recognition highlights their expertise and commitment to patient well-being.”

In this award cycle, U.S. News & World Report also named Overlake a “Best Regional Hospital,” ranking in the top 10 best hospitals in Washington state and the Puget Sound area.

To calculate the Best Hospitals rankings, U.S. News evaluated each hospital’s performance on objective measures such as risk-adjusted mortality rates, preventable complications and level of nursing care. The Best Hospitals Specialty rankings methodology and Procedures & Conditions ratings methodology measure patient outcomes using data from millions of records provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. This year, among other methodology refinements, U.S. News incorporated new data on care provided to patients with Medicare Advantage insurance and on care provided to outpatients, nearly doubling the number of patients included in its annual data analysis. The Procedures & Conditions ratings are based entirely on objective quality measures.

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