Nationally Ranked Hospital
Ranked #14 in
Pennsylvania
Recognized in
South Central Pennsylvania
Recognized
in
Harrisburg, PA metro area
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, PA is ranked nationally in 3 pediatric specialties. It was also high-performing in 12 adult specialties, as shown below. Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center is a 443-bed general medical and surgical facility with 24,827 admissions in the most recent year reported. It performed 10,841 annual inpatient and 14,971 outpatient surgeries. Its emergency room had 56,988 visits. Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center is a teaching hospital.
These institutions were also considered in this hospital's specialty rankings:
Adult Specialties
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High-Performing |
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Pediatric Specialties
This hospital was one of 80 facilities that made the rankings in at least one of the 10 specialties analyzed for the 2012-13 Best Children's Hospitals.
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Nationally Ranked |
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Editor's Note, 7/17/2012: Some children's hospitals were initially misranked in one or more specialties due to a programming error that affected their scores. The website now displays correct rankings. To see if this hospital was one of the affected hospitals, get details here.
Patient Satisfaction
Under a federal program, most U.S. hospitals now sample recently discharged patients and ask them about their stay. In a year's worth of surveys, here's how this hospital's patients responded to a key question, along with averages within the state and nationally.
Whether patients would recommend the hospital to friends and family:
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78%
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| State Average |
67%
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| National Average |
70%
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| Probably or definitely not |
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4%
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| State Average |
5%
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| National Average |
5%
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See complete patient satisfaction survey results
Details
For more about this hospital, see hospital details. The information shown is provided by the American Hospital Association, which compiles data on all U.S. hospitals through an annual survey and from other sources. Hospital ownership, number of doctors and nurses, volume of births and ER visits, and available services such as sports medicine are just a few examples of data collected by the AHA. Find out more at www.ahadata.com.
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Affiliated Hospitals or Services
Contact
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
500 University Drive
Hershey, PA 17033-0850
(717) 531–8521
