At the Aragonese level, the Miguel Servet University Hospital of Zaragoza repeats, for the sixth consecutive year, as best community hospital, consolidating its leadership, as reflected in the sixth edition of the IEH 2021 of the Coordenadas Institute of Governance and Applied Economics.
The rest of the ranking of Aragonese centers presents some changes compared to the previous edition. Ascend to the second position Lozano Blesa University Clinical Hospital, Meanwhile he Hospital Quirónsalud Zaragoza now occupies third position. The top 5 Aragonese centers close on San Jorge General Hospital of Huesca, which rises one position compared to the 2019 edition of the IEH, and the Royo Villanova Hospital in Zaragoza.
"After its discontinuation last year as a consequence of the exceptional situation experienced by hospital centers due to the Covid-19”, explains the Coordinates Institute, the sixth edition of the IEH, which understands hospital excellence as the sum of quality care, hospital service, patient well-being and satisfaction, innovative capacity, personalized care and resource efficiency; betting on the quality and sustainability of a universal health system.
In this joint analysis of Hospital centers, both public and private, prepared through surveys of nearly 2.000 health professionals health throughout Spain, based on the results and perceptions of the professionals who work in them.
"Commitment to excellence"
At the IEH 2021, for the sixth consecutive year, the Jiménez Díaz Foundation as the best hospital in Spain, indicates the Coordenadas Institute, which adds that it is “a leadership that recognizes, once again, its commitment to excellence and highly qualified management. A new recognition that this year is added to that of having been chosen only Spanish hospital in the 'top 20' of the best in the world by Forbes magazine last October, based on several prestigious classifications and various excellence indices and the achievement of the EFQM Global Award, the most prestigious Excellence in Management Award at an international level, becoming the first hospital in the world to receive this prestigious recognition.”
The La Paz University Hospital in Madrid recovers the second position that it had already occupied in the 2015 and 2018 editions, while the third place goes to the Gregorio Marañón, which in addition to placing itself in the 'top 3' of the national ranking for the first time places the Community of Madrid, also for the first time in the six editions of the IEH, with three hospitals at the top of the ranking.
The fourth position is occupied this year by the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, which drops two places compared to 2019, followed by the Vall d'Hebron Hospital, in fifth place, which climbs one position in the ranking, while in sixth place is the Quirónsalud Madrid Hospital.
As was the case in 2019, the Hospital Universitari i Politècnic de Valencia remains in the 'top 10' of the best hospitals, going from eighth position to seventh, its best position in the six editions of the IEH. The Valencian center repeats as the only hospital in the 'top 10' that does not belong to Madrid and Catalonia, communities that, with 6 and 3 hospitals respectively, occupy the first ten positions in the ranking.
In eighth place this year is the Clínico San Carlos and this year also highlights the entry for the first time in the 'top 10' of the Hospital Ruber Internacional, which is placed in ninth position in the IEH'21. The Quirónsalud Barcelona hospital closes the ranking.
"Reinforcement of the fundamental pillars"
“Beyond the unquestionable quality of care of our hospitals and the commitment and dedication of health professionals, the situation experienced as a result of the pandemic has made us reformulate the paradigm of excellence through reinforcement of fundamental pillars such as innovation, research and teaching and value, increasingly, transversal health models that make it possible to make the most of the clinical translation of all the accumulated experience, with the aim of putting it at the service of the patient and society,” says Jesús Sánchez Lambás, Executive Vice President of the Coordenadas Institute.
The IEH 2021, as in previous editions, is structured around three axes: IEH General – the 10 best centers nationwide –, IEH autonomous – the best five centers in each autonomous community – and IEH by specialties – the three best centers depending on specialty.
