Major Organizations; Rankings

Largest Healthcare Companies by Revenue

The above compiles those companies that made the Fortune 1000 list for 2006 whose businesses are healthcare-related fields including “Health Care: Medical Facilities,” “Health Care: Insurance & Managed Care,” and “Health Care: Pharmacy and Other Services”.  It does not include those companies engaged in pharmaceutical research or biotechnology.

Fortune Top Employers to Work For

Bigger is not always better.  In 2006, no healthcare employer was included on both the Fortune500 and the Fortune Best Companies to Work For list, although a number of smaller healthcare-related organizations and some pharmaceutical giants including regional hospital systems were ranked among “Best Employers” in Fortune‘s January 22, 2007 issue.  The listing is based on a survey of organizations’ efforts to keep employees happy, accounting for such attributes as salary, benefits, bonuses, and diversity.  However, it also reflects some less readily quantified aspects that some employees shared in anecdotes published along with the survey, ranging from gay- and family-friendly workplace policies to pride in its products to community engagement and corporate citizenship.  The list includes a number of small businesses and even non-profits whose workers’ satisfaction set them above many megacorps with much deeper pockets.

Unsurprisingly, perhaps, a number of healthcare-related organizations appear on the list. With its underlying emphasis on life-saving and health-inducing products and services, healthcare as an industry can offer workers an opportunity to feel themselves engaged in important, useful work.  Some respondents in the Fortune feature spoke of feeling a particular gratification from helping people or saving lives, and noted their employers’ efforts to convey and share these benefits with them.

Top Hospitals

U.S. News and World Report ranked the following as top performing hospitals on its “Honors List” for 2006, acknowledging those institutions on its annual Best Hospitals List that “rank at or near the top in at least six specialties—a demonstration of broad expertise.”

• Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore

• Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

• Cleveland Clinic

• Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

• UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles

• New York-Presbyterian Univ. Hosp. of Columbia and Cornell

• Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC

• Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis

• University of California, San Francisco Medical Center

• University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle

• Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston

• University of Michigan Hospitals and Health System, Ann Arbor

• Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA

• University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Top Medical Schools

U.S. News and World Report ranked the following as top medical schools on its 2007 America’s Best Graduate Schools List.

• 1. Harvard University (MA)

• 2. Johns Hopkins University (MD)

• 3. University of Pennsylvania

• 4. University of California–San Francisco

• 4. Washington University in St. Louis

• 6. Duke University (NC)

• 7. Stanford University (CA)

• 7. University of Washington

• 9. Yale University (CT)

• 10. Baylor College of Medicine (TX)

• 11. Columbia U. College of Physicians and Surgeons (NY)

• 11. University of California–Los Angeles (Geffen)

• 11. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

• 14. University of California–San Diego

• 15. Cornell University (Weill) (NY)

• 16. University of Pittsburgh

• 17. University of Chicago (Pritzker)

• 17. Vanderbilt University (TN)

• 19. U. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center–Dallas

• 20. Northwestern University (Feinberg) (IL)

• 20. University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill

• 22. Case Western Reserve University (OH)

• 22. Mayo Medical School (MN)

• 22. University of Alabama–Birmingham

• 25. University of Virginia

• 26. Emory University (GA)

• 26. University of Colorado–Denver and Health Sciences Center

• 28. Boston University

• 28. University of Wisconsin–Madison

• 30. Mount Sinai School of Medicine (NY)

• 30. University of Iowa (Carver)

• 32. Dartmouth Medical School (NH)

• 32. New York University

• 32. Ohio State University

• 32. Oregon Health and Science University

• 36. University of Rochester (NY)

• 36. University of Southern California (Keck)

• 38. Brown University (RI)

• 38. University of Minnesota Medical School

• 38. Yeshiva University (Einstein) (NY)

• 41. Wake Forest University (NC)

• 42. Tufts University (MA)

• 42. University of Cincinnati

• 42. University of Maryland

• 45. Indiana University–Indianapolis

• 46. Georgetown University (DC)

• 46. University of California–Irvine

• 48. University of California–Davis

• 48. University of Massachusetts–Worcester

• 50. Stony Brook University (NY)

• 50. Tulane University (LA)

• 50. University of Florida

• 50. University of Utah