The CHU Bordeaux (1st) and Lille (2nd) come first in the new edition of the list of the fifty best public hospitals studied for the quality of their medical or surgical specialties, published Thursday in Le Point . Next are the University Hospital of Toulouse (3rd), accustomed to the podium, the University Hospitals of Strasbourg (4th), the University Hospital of Montpellier (5th, on the rise), the University Hospital of Nantes (6th), the hospital of Pitié-Salpêtrière to Paris (7th, down), CHU Nancy (8th, up), CHU Rennes (9th) and Grenoble (10th) in front of the CHU Tours (11th).
Rankings by discipline
To be included in the final ranking of this independent list, an institution must provide a complete medical and surgical service. This version provides its highest ranking (122) of medical and surgical disciplines. The weekly offers a range of special care classifications covering a broad spectrum of care (myocardial infarction, back surgery, obesity, stroke, breast cancer, hearing, depression, schizophrenia, hernia). abdomen, etc.).
Among the novelties this year, twelve activities, including sleep disorders at any age, testicular surgery, childhood and adolescent cancers (kidney, bone, brain, acute leukemia, lymphoma), epilepsy ...
The best clinic is in the Marne
The brand new polyclinic of Reims-Bezannes, in the Marne, is at the top of the 50 best clinics in France.
Several articles accompany this new edition produced, as the 22 previous years, by François Malye and Jérôme Vincent. Creators of this type of health record, they started it as a "blacklist" of hospitals, in 1997, in Sciences et Avenir , before opting for a positive ranking of the best institutions. Summary this year: the robot-surgery that struggles to convince, inequalities in stroke and psychogenic pseudo-epilepsies ...
The weekly also reviews the crisis of emergencies with a map of vacancies in 277 of the 497 general public emergency services, more or less blocked by temporary workers. "Nearly 800 positions to be filled, a figure probably underestimated," notes François Malye.
Moreover, "a huge inequality of opportunity" persists in France for stroke, a source of disability: less than one in two victims (48%) was hospitalized in a specialized neurovascular unit, according to the national database hospitals (PMSI). A much lower figure than other countries such as England (96% in 2016) or Sweden (87% in 2009), the weekly highlights.