Atrium Health Earns U.S. News & World Report ‘Top 10 Rehabilitation Hospital’ and a Top Hospital in the Carolinas Recognition

Advocate Health system has 25 award-winning hospitals on ‘Best Hospitals’ list

CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 16, 2024 – One of the nation’s most respected news outlets is again recognizing Atrium Health as a national leader in health care. In new rankings released today U.S. News & World Report has ranked Atrium Health Carolinas Rehabilitation at No. 7 on the “Best Hospitals for Rehabilitation” list. For the second year in a row, Carolinas Rehabilitation has earned top 10 recognition, improving from No. 9 in 2023. This designation puts Carolinas Rehabilitation among the top 1% of rehabilitation hospitals in the nation, as well as being the highest-ranking rehabilitation hospital in the Southeast and the only ranked hospital in the Charlotte region.

Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center is also being recognized as the “Best Hospital” in the Charlotte metro region for the eighth consecutive year. In addition, both Atrium Health Cabarrus and Atrium Health Pineville were named in the top five. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center tied for the top spot in the Greensboro/Winston-Salem region.

Across the Advocate Health enterprise, of which Atrium Health is a part, the health system has 25 award-winning hospitals on U.S. News & World Report’s 2024-25 Best Hospitals list.

"This year, U.S. News & World Report has honored nearly three dozen of our Advocate Health system hospitals as among the nation's very best," said Eugene Woods, CEO of Advocate Health. "This recognition is evidence of how our teammates are transforming care and enhancing health across our six-state footprint in both rural and urban communities – one patient at a time."

While 2024-2025 “Best Children’s Hospitals” rankings will be shared later this year, Advocate Children’s Hospital, in Chicago, and Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital, in Charlotte, were most recently recognized with nine U.S. News & World Report national badges for pediatric specialties.

Atrium Health Carolinas Rehabilitation: A National Leader

This year marks the fourth consecutive appearance among the top spots for Atrium Health Carolinas Rehabilitation on U.S. News & World Report’s national “Best Hospitals for Rehabilitation” list.

“Next year will mark the 75th anniversary of Atrium Health Carolinas Rehabilitation caring for the most vulnerable in our community,” said Robert Larrison, Jr., enterprise group vice president of the Atrium Health rehabilitation network and president of Carolinas Rehabilitation. “I can’t think of a better way to begin celebrating our commitment to caring for our community for over seven decades than with a No. 7 ranking.”

“This has been another extraordinary year for our team – serving patients with life altering, catastrophic injuries and degenerative disease from over 70 counties as well as 20 states, including the Carolinas,” he added. “We are fortunate to have a world class rehabilitation team and rehabilitation hospital in Charlotte, so patients and their families have access to the best rehabilitative care in the country – right here in our community.”

Last year, Carolinas Rehabilitation was announced as the only U.S.-based rehabilitation hospital granted membership into the World Rehabilitation Alliance, which is affiliated with the World Health Organization, and dedicated to addressing the increasing unmet needs for rehabilitation and the importance of strengthening health systems to better provide rehabilitation around the world.

The David L. Conlan Center at Atrium Health Carolinas Rehabilitation opened in early 2023 to serve patients with innovative, specialized  therapy for common to complex conditions due to life-altering injury or illness. The Conlan Center features 72 private patient rooms, private treatment spaces, an outdoor therapy garden and 16,000 square feet of inpatient and outpatient therapy space with many unique services, such as certified programs for spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury and cancer.

“The recognition by U.S. News & World Report is a testament to the alignment between key stakeholders within our organization to align our missions of health, hope and healing for all,” said Dr. Vishwa S. Raj, medical director of Carolinas Rehabilitation. “Our ability to provide access to care for our most vulnerable populations, while maintaining the high quality and academic standards, puts Atrium Health Carolinas Rehabilitation at the forefront of rehabilitation hospitals across the country.”

Carolinas Rehabilitation admits more than 3,600 patients with life-altering injuries and diseases annually. In addition, Carolinas Rehabilitation outpatient therapy clinics provide approximately 200,000 therapy visits per year. The hospital is an integral part of Atrium Health’s world class service lines, including Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute, Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital, Atrium Health Musculoskeletal Institute, Atrium Health Neuroscience Institute and Atrium Health Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute,

Each year, U.S. News & World Report evaluates more than 5,000 hospitals across the nation, assessing objective measures in most areas of care, such as risk-adjusted survival, readmission rates, volume, patient experience, patient safety and quality of nursing, among other care-related indicators. According to the publication, the annual best hospitals rankings are designed to assist patients and their doctors in making informed decisions about where to receive care for life-threatening conditions or for common elective procedures. For the full list of rankings, visit USNews.com/Best-Hospitals.