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By  //  July 23, 2013

Holmes Regional Medical Center Climbs to #22

Holmes Regional Medical Center features 514 beds and more than 500 highly skilled Medical Staff members. As the region’s premier tertiary referral hospital, Holmes offers patients life-saving technology at every turn. The Heart Center at Holmes performs more cardiac procedures than all other hospitals in Brevard and provides patients with all-private rooms. As the only state-accredited Level II trauma center in Brevard and Indian River Counties, Holmes Trauma Center offers 24/7 trauma care and rapid patient transport via First Flight aeromedical helicopter. Additionally, The Birth Suites Mother/Baby Unit offers Brevard’s first Level II Neonatal ICU for our tiniest patients. Holmes is also proud to be the first hospital in Brevard to offer state-of-the-art robotics-assisted surgery for Urology, Prostate, and Gynecological conditions, advanced anterior hip replacement and reverse shoulder surgeries. As a Primary Stroke Center, our goal is to transport, assess, diagnose, and treat each stroke patient within three hours of the onset of their symptoms. We also offer advanced, life-changing Interventional Neuro-Radiology procedures for advanced stroke treatment found nowhere else in Brevard. (Image for SpaceCoastDaily.com)
Holmes Regional Medical Center features 514 beds and more than 500 highly skilled Medical Staff members. As the region’s premier tertiary referral hospital, Holmes offers patients life-saving technology at every turn. The Heart Center at Holmes performs more cardiac procedures than all other hospitals in Brevard and provides patients with all-private rooms. As the only state-accredited Level II trauma center in Brevard and Indian River Counties, Holmes Trauma Center offers 24/7 trauma care and rapid patient transport via First Flight aeromedical helicopter. Additionally, The Birth Suites Mother/Baby Unit offers Brevard’s first Level II Neonatal ICU for our tiniest patients. Holmes is also proud to be the first hospital in Brevard to offer state-of-the-art robotics-assisted surgery for Urology, Prostate, and Gynecological conditions, advanced anterior hip replacement and reverse shoulder surgeries. As a Primary Stroke Center, our goal is to transport, assess, diagnose, and treat each stroke patient within three hours of the onset of their symptoms. We also offer advanced, life-changing Interventional Neuro-Radiology procedures for advanced stroke treatment found nowhere else in Brevard. (Image for SpaceCoastDaily.com)

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Health First Holmes Regional Medical Center has been ranked as one of the best hospitals in Florida for 2013-14 by U.S. News & World Report. 

Stuart Mitchell
Stuart Mitchell

The annual U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings, now in their 24th year, recognize hospitals that excel in treating patients. Health First Holmes Regional Medical Center was ranked #22 in Florida (compared with a ranking of #23 for 2012-13). There are more than 250 hospitals in Florida.

“Health First is extremely proud of this ranking from U.S. News & World Report,” said Health First Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer Stuart Mitchell.

“We work hard every day to improve the health and well-being of the members of our community.”

ALSO RECOGNIZED FOR ORTHOPEDIC EXCELLENCE

Health First Holmes Regional Medical Center was also designated high-performing in Orthopedics. U.S. News evaluates hospitals in 16 adult specialties and recognizes high-performing hospitals that provide care at nearly the level of their nationally ranked peers.

The annual U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings, now in their 24th year, recognize hospitals that excel in treating patients. Health First Holmes Regional Medical Center was ranked #22 in Florida. (U.S. News image)
The annual U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings, now in their 24th year, recognize hospitals that excel in treating patients. Health First Holmes Regional Medical Center was ranked #22 in Florida. (U.S. News image)

U.S. News publishes Best Hospitals to help guide patients who need a high level of care because they face particularly difficult surgery, a challenging condition, or added risk because of other health problems or age. Objective measures such as patient survival and safety data, the adequacy of nurse staffing levels and other data largely determined the rankings in most specialties.

“A hospital that emerges from our analysis as one of the best has much to be proud of,” said U.S. News Health Rankings Editor Avery Comarow.

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Avery Comarow

“Only about 15 percent of hospitals are recognized for their high performance as among their region’s best. Just three percent of all hospitals earn a national ranking in any specialty.”

The specialty rankings and data were produced for U.S. News by RTI International, a leading research organization based in Research Triangle Park, N.C. Using the same data, U.S. News produced the state and metro rankings.

The rankings are available online at Health.USNews.com/best-hospitals and will appear in print in the U.S. News Best Hospitals 2014 guidebook, available in bookstores and on newsstands August 27.