The Hospital La Paz in Madrid is for the sixth consecutive year the public hospital with the best reputation in Spain and increasingly takes advantage of the Clinical Hospital of Barcelona, ​​which is in second place.

This is reflected in the new edition of the Health Reputation Monitor (MRS), a ranking promoted by the Collegiate Medical Organization and the General Nursing Council that measures both the opinion of professionals about hospital centers and their objective management and assistance results sanitary, to calculate with all this reputation. And although quality and reputation do not have to be synonymous, the results do show an important correlation between the good image of the hospitals and their good results : in silver there are no hospitals with good image that have bad results or hospitals with good results but bad image.

The study, for which more than 6,000 doctors , nurses, hospital managers, patient associations and journalists specialized in health have been surveyed and for which health management and management indicators have also been analyzed in 2,525 hospital services, choose as top Have a health reputation, after La Paz and the Clinical Hospital of Barcelona, ​​the Gregorio Marañón Hospital in Madrid, on October 12, Madrid, the Valle Hebrón Hospital, the La Fe Hospital in Valencia, the Ramón y Cajal in Madrid, the Foundation Jiménez Díaz also from Madrid, the Virgen del Rocío University Hospital in Seville and the San Carlos Clinical Hospital in Madrid.

Private hospitals

Among the private hospitals with the best reputation, which are analyzed separately, the University Clinic of Navarra is one more year ahead, followed by the QuirónSalud Hospital in Madrid, the HM Sanchinarro / Clara Campal Hospital in Madrid, the Sanitas la Zarzuela Hospital also in Madrid and, fifthly, the Teknon QuirónSalud Medical Center.

The leadership of La Paz is practically indisputable in all hospital services. So when asked about the hospital with the best reputation in a certain clinical service, "which is nothing more than asking a doctor, for example, where would a patient derive if he could send him to any hospital" -explain the study promoters- , the answer is almost permanently La Paz.

The best of each specialty

This Madrid hospital leads the ranking in Allergology, Cardiology (practically tied with Gregorio Marañón), Oral Surgery, Orthopedics, Dermatology, Endocrinology, Internal Medicine, Neurology, Otolaryngology Gynecology , Pediatrics, Rheumatology and Urology and when it does not lead it is usually placed in second Market Stall.

Leadership in other specialties corresponds to the Barcelona Clinic in Digestive Diseases, General Surgery, Hematology and Nephrology, Pulmonology. In first positions, hospitals such as Ramón y Cajal in Ophthalmology, Hebron Valley in medical Oncology , Gregorio Marañón in Psychiatry and Anesthesia, October 12 in Radiodiagnosis and Intensive Medicine can also be seen.

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