Rankings
In 2012-13, the MedStar Washington Hospital Center was named among “America’s Best Hospitals” for Cardiology & Heart Surgery by U.S.News & World Report in the magazine’s 22nd annual survey of nearly 5,000 health care facilities.
The Hospital Center was the only Washington hospital to be ranked in the areas of Cardiology & Heart Surgery in 2012/13. Only 148 medical centers in the U.S. were ranked in one or more of 16 specialties designated in U.S.News & World Report's survey. The Washington DC metropolitan area, of which the Washington Hospital Center is part of, includes Alexandria and Arlington County, Va., and Bethesda and Rockville, Md. The hospitals in this area number 59 and of these the Washington hospital Center is ranked number two just below Inova Fairfax Hospital.
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