Tokyo (SCCIJ) – A Swiss and a Japanese hospital were selected among the world’s top ten clinics. According to the U.S. magazine Newsweek and the German online statistics portal Statista’s panel of doctors, medical professionals and administrators across four continents, the Lausanne University Hospital was ranked as no. 9 in the world immediately behind the University of Tokyo Hospital.
Lausanne University Hospital
Swiss “Health Valley”
The Lausanne University Hospital, abbreviated to CHUV due to its French name, is one of the five Swiss university hospitals and belongs to the so-called Switzerland “Health Valley” which is home to nearly 1,000 biotechnology and medical technology companies.
Thanks to its collaboration with the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne, the CHUV plays a leading European role in the fields of medical care, medical research, and training. CHUV is sharing cutting-edge medical practices through its free magazine, In Vivo, also published in English.
According to Newsweek, it was one of only two Swiss hospitals chosen by the World Health Organization to conduct the all-important Ebola vaccine trials in October 2014.
Top doctors and researchers
The University of Tokyo Hospital established in 1958 is one of the eldest medical institutions in Japan and follows its primary mission to “provide the best medical care to individual patients” in six clinical divisions: Internal, Surgery, Sensory/Motor Function, Pediatrics/ Perinatal/ Gynecology, Neuropsychiatry, and Radiology.
The Newsweek report emphasized that in 2017, the specialized clinical departments of the hospital completed 35 trials, in addition to treating more than 1 million patients. Five years earlier, the hospital opened the trailblazing Department of Disaster Medical Management. It would also educate the top doctors and researchers in Japan, the report said.
Top 1000 Hospitals
U.S. hospitals occupy the two top spots – the Mayo Clinic in Rochester and the Cleveland Clinic, followed by Singapore General Hospital, the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, the Charité University Hospital Berlin, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and the Toronto General Hospital. The Sheba Medical Center Tel HaShomer in Rabat Gan (Israel) completed the Top Ten.
The global expert panel for Newsweek and Statista compiled a list of the Top 1000 hospitals in the world. Besides CHUV, the best clinics from Switzerland are Les Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (with an overall score of 90,3), Universitätsspital Zürich (90,2), Klinik Hirslanden Zürich (90,1), Lindenhofspital Bern (90,0), Hirslanden Klinik Aarau (89,7), Universitätsspital Basel (89,7), Inselspital Bern (89,6), Hirslanden Klink St. Anna Luzern (89,5).
The ranking of the Top Ten hospitals in Japan looks like this: After the leading University of Tokyo Hospital, these are St. Luke’s International Hospital in Tokyo (with a score of 96,4), Kurashiki Central Hospital in Kurashiki (94,7), Kyoto University Hospital (94,7), Juntendo University Hospital in Tokyo (94,2), Osaka University Hospital in Suite (94,0), Kamera Medical Center in Kamogawa (93,2), Kyushu University Hospital in Fukuoka (93,2), and Teikyo University Hospital (92,9) in Tokyo.
The full list of the top 1,000 hospitals worldwide is available online.
Text: Martin Fritz for SCCIJ; Photo: Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) (Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0)
