An annual survey for Newsweek magazine has named the Jewish General Hospital (JGH) to its list of World’s Best Hospitals 2022.
Official recognition of the JGH’s achievement was announced on March 2 by Newsweek and Statista Inc., a leading statistics portal and global provider of industry rankings.
The distinction, which the JGH has earned again this year, is shared with top healthcare institutions in 27 countries, including the United States, Germany, France, Singapore, Switzerland, Israel, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Sweden.
The Newsweek rankings are based on:
Responses to a survey that was sent to more than 80,000 doctors, hospital managers and healthcare professionals around the world
Results of surveys that examined patients’ experiences and their levels of satisfaction
Performance indicators, such as patient safety, hygiene measures and the quality of treatment
“It’s extremely gratifying for us to again be counted among the world’s best,” says Dr. Lawrence Rosenberg, President and CEO of CIUSSS West-Central Montreal, the healthcare network in which the JGH plays a pivotal role as a major innovator and a pace-setting acute-care hospital.
“These results would not have been possible, if not for the commitment, professionalism and compassion of every member of staff in numerous clinical and non-clinical fields,” adds Dr. Rosenberg.
“Their devotion to the needs of our patients was especially noteworthy during the COVID-19 pandemic, when continuing to provide care of superior quality became an unprecedented challenge that they were able to successfully meet.”
The JGH, which opened in 1934, is the largest—and, in many respects, the focal point—of the roughly three dozen healthcare and social services facilities in CIUSSS West-Central Montreal.
As a McGill University teaching hospital, the JGH is also one of the province’s most sophisticated and busiest healthcare facilities and referral centres, with a major oncology centre (the Segal Cancer Centre) and one of the world’s leading research institutes (the Lady Davis Institute).