VUMC tops U.S. News & World Report's rankings of top Tennessee hospitals

Nashville is known as the “health care capital” of the United States, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the city’s hospitals are the best in Tennessee. U.S. News & World Report has released its 2020-21 rankings of the top hospitals in each state based on factors such as survival rates, readmission rates, patient safety and volume. Facilities must be a teaching hospital, be affiliated with a medical school, have at least 200 beds or have at least 100 beds and offer four out of the eight…