Brookings Health System Again Named on Newsweek’s World’s Best Hospitals List

  • March 03, 2022
Inpatient Care Nurses Elise Deibert and Lindsey Thompson discuss patient cares during shift change at Brookings Hospital while fellow nurses Elizabeth Campbell and Liz Tramp do the same. Brookings Health System was recently named to Newsweek’s list of World’s Best Hospitals 2022, the second consecutive year the health system has received the award. The honor is based on hospital recommendations from peers, patient experience and medical key performance indicators such as a patient safety and treatment quality.
Inpatient Care Nurses Elise Deibert and Lindsey Thompson discuss patient cares during shift change at Brookings Hospital while fellow nurses Elizabeth Campbell and Liz Tramp do the same. Brookings Health System was recently named to Newsweek’s list of World’s Best Hospitals 2022, the second consecutive year the health system has received the award. The honor is based on hospital recommendations from peers, patient experience and medical key performance indicators such as a patient safety and treatment quality.

For the second consecutive year, Brookings Health System was named to Newsweek’s list of World’s Best Hospitals. This prestigious award is presented by Newsweek and Statista Inc., the world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider. The awards list can currently be viewed on Newsweek’s website.

“Unsolicited recognitions such as this validates our team’s dedication to patient safety and satisfaction,” said President and CEO Jason Merkley. “Being the only rural community hospital from South Dakota listed by Newsweek alongside the two Sioux Falls hospitals demonstrates that our team continually innovates, attracts the best people and excels at all aspects of service and quality.”

Brookings Health ranks 254 of the Best Hospitals 2022 in the United States, up over 50 spots from last year’s ranking. Newsweek and Statista developed a complex methodology to ensure the quality and validity of the ranking. Three data sources were used for the evaluation:

  • Hospital recommendations from peers: an international online survey that included more than 80,000 doctors, hospital managers and health care professionals
  • Patient experience: surveys measuring patient satisfaction with hospitals
  • Medical key performance indicators (KPIs): patient safety, hygiene measures, and quality of treatment

The World’s Best Hospitals 2022 list recognizes the best medical institutions across 27 countries: USA, Canada, Germany, France, UK, Switzerland, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Israel, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Thailand, Italy, Brazil, India, Spain, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Columbia, Austria, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

More information about Brookings Health System’s high quality of care can be found at brookingshealth.org/quality.

About Brookings Health System

Brookings Health System, located in Brookings, South Dakota, includes a 49-bed hospital, the 79-bed The Neighborhoods at Brookview nursing home, Brookhaven Estates senior living apartments, Yorkshire Eye Clinic & Optical, and medical clinics in Arlington, White and Volga, South Dakota. It is a non-profit, city-owned facility that offers the community a full range of inpatient, outpatient, emergency and extended care services. Brookings Hospital provides local access to doctors in Brookings and offers robotic da Vinci surgery and Mako robotic-arm assisted procedures, making it one of the premier rural community hospitals in South Dakota. For more information about the services offered at Brookings Health System, please call (605) 696-9000 or visit us on the Web at brookingshealth.org.