| U.S. News names N.C. Children's Hospital as one of nation’s best in 10 clinical categories |
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| Tuesday, June 05, 2012 | |
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For the fifth year running, N.C. Children’s Hospital at UNC Hospitals has been recognized by U.S. News Media Group as one of the nation’s best. N.C. Children’s Hospital ranks in 10 out of 10 clinical categories in U.S. News & World Report’s 2012-13 “America’s Best Children’s Hospitals” list, including a top 10 ranking in pediatric pulmonology. N.C. Children’s Hospital is recognized 6th in pulmonology, 22nd in cancer, 23rd in gastroenterology, 29th in orthopaedics, 31st in nephrology, 32nd in endocrinology and diabetes, 36th in urology, 38th in neonatology, 42nd in cardiology and heart surgery, and 47th in neurology and neurosurgery. This year’s rankings mark the first time N.C. Children’s Hospital has been ranked in all 10 clinical categories recognized by U.S. News & World Report. For full release |
CAROLINA IN THE NEWS
UNC's Loren Shealy wins SI's female College Athlete of the Year awardSports Illustrated
The phrase has been hollowed out by years of often cynical misapplication, but every once in a while a special collegian gives the term student-athlete unassailable substance. Meet SI's female College Athlete of the Year, North Carolina sophomore Loren Shealy, an ace field hockey forward, top business administration student, Robertson Scholar and, for one lunch hour in late April, just one of the scores of UNC students who have stopped for a meal or conversation at the Pit, the oak-shaded sunken brick courtyard that serves as the village square of the Chapel Hill campus.