AMC entered the top global list of Newsweek’s World’s Best Hospitals 2021 as it was ranked the 34th.
Asan Medical Center (AMC) was ranked first among Korean hospitals and 34th among international hospitals at the World’s Best Hospitals 2021 by Newsweek, a U.S.-based news magazine. AMC moved up three notches from last year’s 37th place in the global ranking and defended its top position among local hospitals.
Newsweek has partnered with Statista Inc., the global market research and consumer data firm, to rank the world’s best hospitals among a selection of 200 hospitals by putting together recommendations from 70,000 medical experts across 25 countries, patient satisfaction data, and other sources. The results for 2021 were released on the official Newsweek site on March 3rd. AMC was the only Korean hospital to appear among the top ranks and compete with the world’s greatest hospitals. In addition, AMC maintained its position as the best Korean hospital for three consecutive years since Newsweek first released the World’s Best Hospitals rankings in 2019.
The ranking’s evaluation criteria include the following: online surveys collected from doctors, hospital officials, and medical professionals (55%); patient satisfaction survey results (15%); and medical performance indicators that quantify service qualities such as patient safety (30%). From this year, the HIRA (Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service) index for patient experience evaluation for Korean hospitals was newly added.
In this year’s list, Mayo Clinic, a U.S.-based medical practice was named the world’s best hospital, followed by Cleveland Clinic (U.S.), Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School (U.S.), Toronto General – University Health Network (Canada), and the Johns Hopkins Hospital (U.S.).
AMC already entered the top global lists in all 6 categories of Newsweek’s World’s Best Specialized Hospitals 2021 announced last year. AMC was the only Korean hospital to enter the top global 50 list in all 6 areas: endocrinology (4th), gastroenterology (6th); oncology (7th); neurology (8th); orthopedics (12th); and cardiology (36th).
Seung-Il Park, President of Asan Medical Center said, “Our efforts in encompassing both clinical practices and research activities to build a medical care system focused on serious medical conditions are receiving favorable recognition not only in Korea but also around the world. We will continue to reinforce our medical treatment capacity for severely ill patients so that more patients can receive optimized treatment in a safe environment.”
Meanwhile, AMC has positioned itself as the fourth-grade hospital visited by many severely ill patients with their last hope, by safely practicing over 60,000 cases of high-level surgeries and treatments a year based on its Asan Global Standard, internal medical service standard guidelines, infection control system and medical care system focused on serious medical conditions. AMC is one of the world leaders of organ transplantation surgery, in particular, with the largest number of surgeries performed on live donor liver transplantation, 2-for-1 liver transplantation, and ABO-incompatible liver transplantation.
AMC’s advanced medical technology and system gained more and more global attention to the extent that more than 3,600 medical scientists from 90 countries have visited AMC for training in recent 10 years. The Asan in Asia project has been a gateway for delivering advanced medical technology to less-developed countries, including Mongolia and Vietnam.
