Upper Valley Neurology Neurosurgery, with primary offices in Lebanon NH has been recognized as the best performing in Back Surgery & Spinal Fusion by U.S. News & World Report.
(UVNN) Upper Valley Neurology Neurosurgery was named winner of the U.S. News & World Report's 2021 "New Hampshire’s Best Performing in Back Surgery and Spinal Fusion" beating out 6,000 other competitors to take home top honors. U.S. News and World Report presented the award to (UVNN) Upper Valley Neurology Neurosurgery virtually. Details about the award can be found on the company website at https://uvnn.com/uvnn-named-new-hampshires-best-in-back-surgery-and-spinal-fusion/.
Potential award recipients were chosen from 15 specialty areas of care. In 12 of the specialty areas, rankings are derived from data sources, such as Medicare: cancer; cardiology & heart surgery; diabetes & endocrinology; ear, nose & throat; gastroenterology & GI surgery; geriatrics; gynecology; neurology & neurosurgery; orthopedics; pulmonology & lung surgery; rehabilitation; and urology. In the remaining three specialties - ophthalmology, psychiatry, and rheumatology - ranking is determined entirely by expert opinion, based on responses from three years of surveys of physician specialists who were asked to name the hospitals to which they would be inclined to refer their sickest patients. The rankings name the top 50 hospitals for complex care in each of the 12 data-driven specialties and roughly a dozen in the three expert-opinion-based specialties.
In order to be in contention for the Best Performing in Back Surgery and Spinal Fusion, U.S. News & World Report evaluated each hospital's performance using a variety of measures. Some data came from the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Standard Analytical File database. Other information came from the American Hospital Association and from professional organizations.
U.S. News & World Report placed the heaviest reliance on outcomes because of the self-evident connection between a patient's outcomes, including survival, and the quality of their care. Other data, such as the number of patients and the ratio of nurses and patients, are less obviously related to quality, but ample research supports the connection. The physician survey also played a role, although it accounted for only slightly more than one-fourth of each hospital's score
Persons interested in learning more about (UVNN) Upper Valley Neurology Neurosurgery and the award can visit the website at https://uvnn.com/uvnn-named-new-hampshires-best-in-back-surgery-and-spinal-fusion/.
