BOSTON — Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston has been named the nation’s top hospital by U.S. News and World Report.
MGH displaced Johns Hopkins in Baltimore at the top of the list in the annual rankings released Tuesday. Hopkins had been at the top for 21 consecutive years.
MGH president Dr. Peter Slavin called the ranking a “tribute to the more than 23,000” staff at the hospital.
Dr. David Torchiana, chairman of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization said the competition was not other hospitals, but “disease, health care costs, accessibility of services, and social issues.”
Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston was ranked ninth.
The 950-bed MGH was founded in 1811 and admits about 48,000 patients per year and delivers about 3,600 babies annually.
No nurses union.
No union, but they make good money anyway. They are also the State’s largest employer.
Being able to exploit workers with impunity is always such a plus…
My udder half works there as on OR nurse. I don’t think that $60 an hour +/- before overtime is being exploited with impunity whatsoever!
There’s more to fairness than wages.
Family leave act? check
Subsidized health ins? Check
Subsidized ongoing education? Check
Uniforms? check
Free monthly subway passes? check
The list goes on and on.
I know that many nonunion jobs don’t cover these, but many foreign car plants in the USA do and they’re not union. In the late 70’s, Chrysler employees were paid $27/hr to mindlessly screw together those awful Aspens and laughed about what junk they were. I was paid $2.25/hr to try to fix the crappers. Imagine the screams from consumers if they had to pay $27 at the dealerships.
Besides, this article was about Mass General, anyway…..