Penn Medicine Withdraws from U.S. News Hospital Rankings

The University of Pennsylvania Health System, part of Penn Medicine, has announced that it will no longer participate in the U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking of hospitals. The decision follows a growing revolt against the lists by prominent schools, including Yale and Harvard law schools and many top medical schools. Penn Medicine officials criticized the ranking’s emphasis on inpatient care of people on Medicare, and the health system will create a public dashboard with more comprehensive data than U.S. News collects.