Quality care

The Ohio State University Medical Center and Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus have been named to the Leapfrog Group's first Top Hospitals list. 

The elite list includes only 59 hospitals nationwide and is based on the quality and safety of the care they provide for patients.  More than 1,200 hospitals responded to the survey by Leapfrog, a six-year old collaboration of the nation's largest corporations and public agencies.

In 2007 the Ohio State University Medical Center was named on the US News and World Report Best Hospitals list for the 15th year in a row.

Top performer


The Ohio State University Medical Center is one of only five academic medical centers across the country to be recognized by University Health System Consortium (UHC) for delivering high-quality, safe, effective and equitable care to patients.

UHC is an alliance of 95 academic medical centers and 139 of their affiliated hospitals.  The recognition is based on an intense evaluation of performance measures such as safety, mortality, effectiveness and equity.

The Ohio State University Medical Center is a designated Magnet facility. Only 223 hospitals in the nation have Magnet designations and the Ohio State University Medical Center was the first central Ohio hospital to achieve it.


Best workplace

The Scientist magazine has listed Ohio State first among colleges and universities and third among all institutions nationally for its workplace environment for life sciences researchers. 

More than 1,600 survey respondents identified as tenured or tenure-track researchers in the life sciences working in academia or other non-commercial research organizations participated in the Web-based questionnaire.