Toronto General was just named the second-best hospital in the world
Medical recruitment opportunities have opened up as doctors and health researchers leave the US
Newsweek‘s annual World’s Best Hospitals list has been published, and based on quality metrics including patient experience data and the expertise of medical professionals, Toronto General placed very close to the top of it.
The downtown hospital has ranked in the top ten since Newsweek’s rankings launched in 2019. This year, it’s achieved the position of being second-best on the list, behind Ohio’s Cleveland Clinic. For the last two years, it held the third-place spot.
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“When you look down that list there are very few places in the world where you can say, ‘I can walk into a best-in-the-world hospital and it doesn’t matter if I’m one of the wealthiest people in that society or one of least advantaged people in the society, I will get the same care,’” University Health Network president and chief executive officer Kevin Smith told the Canadian Press.
He added that a decrease in US health research funding has opened hiring opportunities for UHN. Eleven of 61 people recently recruited are Canadians who had been working abroad. Their research focuses on viruses, vaccines, health equity, cancer and heart disease.
“I do think this is a bit of a Canadian moment. We’ve been advantaged by that,” he said.
Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital moved up to 27th place. Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre fell from 24 to 30.
Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
