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Aji Djamali, MD, Maine Medical Center’s Chair of the Department of Medicine recently donated his kidney to a former patient at the UW Health Transplant Center (UW Health) in Madison, Wisconsin. Djamali, who was a professor of medicine and surgery and transplant nephrologist leading the division of nephrology at UW Health, is making his donation…

Houston Smith had never been the type to share much personal information on social media, but on March 13, the Army veteran poured his heart into a Facebook post – and it saved his life. More than 250 miles away in Emporium, Pa., Michael Spaeth, an Army veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, saw…

Six of the 11 Mayo Clinic hospitals across the organization, including Mayo Clinic Rochester, Arizona, and Florida, received earned five stars for Overall Hospital Quality from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)—the best score possible. The national average is 3 of 5 stars.

Several Massachusetts hospitals are among the best-performing in the state, according to new rankings from U.S. News & World Report released Tuesday. Baystate Medical Center was ranked number 6 in the state.

NYU Langone Health is the top hospital in New York State and No. 3 in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report’s annual “Best Hospitals” Honor Roll released today.

Presbyterian Hospital was again the only hospital in New Mexico to be named best regional hospital by U.S. News & World Report and was also recognized as a High Performing Hospital in nine areas of care, including kidney failure.

For the eleventh year in a row, U.S. News & World Report has ranked Emory University Hospital the No. 1 hospital in Georgia and metro Atlanta in the regional rankings in U.S. News Best Hospitals issue.

In U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals rankings, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is nationally recognized as High Performing in aortic valve surgery, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), colon cancer surgery, diabetes, heart attack, heart bypass surgery, heart failure, kidney failure, lung cancer surgery, prostate cancer surgery and stroke.