UNC Department of Psychiatry Ranked Among Nation's Best by U.S.News & World Report

Ranked number 22 out of 50 in the magazine's 17th annual "America's Best Hospitals" issue, UNC's Department of Psychiatry, headed by Dr. David Rubinow, integrates state-of-the-art biological, psychological, and social approaches in the care of patients and their families.  The department houses the only comprehensive eating disorders program in the Southeast, and is known as a research leader in areas such as depression and schizophrenia.

According to U.S. News & World Report, only 176 hospitals nationwide out of 5,189 that were evaluated "scored high enough this year in such measures of quality as mortality and patient volume to be ranked in any specialty."

To be eligible for ranking, hospitals had to meet any of three standards: 1) Membership in Council of Teaching Hospitals; 2) affiliation with a medical school; or 3) availability of at least nine out of 18 key technologies such as shaped-beam radiation, an advanced cancer therapy.  This year, fewer than a third of the nation's hospitals qualified.