U.S. News is now ranking hospitals by metro area (I'll be honest, I don't even know if they publish a weekly magazine anymore).

 

Here is the link to their easy-to-use rankings by metro area. 

 

http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area

 

Metro Cleveland has 34 hospitals; U.S. News ranks 17 of them.

Metro Cincinnati has 34 hospitals; U.S. News ranks 10 of them.

Metro Columbus has 22 hospitals; U.S. News ranks 5 of them. 

 

Pretty interesting stuff, checking on various metro areas.  For example, Atlanta has 57 hospitals, but only 11 get ranked.  St. Louis, despite not being that much larger on a metro population basis than any of the three C's, has 53(!) hospitals, according to U.S. News.  Portland, despite being essentially the same size metro as Cincinnati and Cleveland, only has 18 hospitals. 

Interesting that Nashville, while being touted as a highly-regarded medical community by it's medical mart developers, only has two "top-ranked" hospitals in the entire metro area, compared to Cleveland's 17.  Seems like quite a disparity.

Maybe Nashville should be looking at Cleveland.

Agreed that there are more highly ranked hospitals in the Cleve, and I support the MedMart there.  The advantage that Nashville does have is HCA, a corporate hospital conglomerate-Fortune 100 company, and a number of other Hospital Corporations (including one that just bought out a number of Detroit based hospitals) are based here.  These companies own hospitals all over the country, which would make this an appealing locale for a medical mart.

Also very nice to see that the Cleveland Clinic is 4th nationally (behind Johns Hopkins, the Mayo Clinic, and Massachusetts General), and I think OSU is in the top 14 nationally as well.