Many medical institutions struggled with these and other challenges over the course of the pandemic but what has set the world's leading hospitals apart is their continued ability to deliver the highest-quality patient care and conduct critical medical research even as they focused on battling COVID. The biggest challenge was the joint setting of individual priorities for a common goal." 15 on our Global Leaders list) says, "Many lessons could be learned from COVID, such as recognizing the efficacy of virtual meetings, valuing the importance of hospital hygiene and emphasizing the importance of generalists over siloed specialization. Christoph Meier, Director of the Department of Internal Medicine at University Hospital Zurich (No. There were also great challenges with managing our supply chain for things like ventilators and personal protective equipment."ĭr. 17 on Newsweek's Best Hospitals Global Leaders list) says, "We had to very rapidly convert beds to ICU beds, and close large sections of the hospital, then come up with staff to cover those beds. Kaplan, former CEO of Virginia Mason Franciscan Health and current senior vice president of CommonSpirit Health, "The pandemic has exacerbated a worldwide healthcare staffing shortage, especially in nursing."ĭavid Bates, chief of general internal medicine and primary care at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital (No. According to the experts who helped guide the results of our annual ranking of the World's Best Hospitals, that has meant learning to adapt to new and existing challenges quickly and improvising on the fly.įor instance, according to Dr.
The world's hospitals have been the front line in medicine's constantly evolving war against COVID-19 for two years now.
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