CANCER CARE RANKS HIGH
Only four New England institutions—including DHMC's
Norris Cotton Cancer Center—made the top-50 ranking in
the cancer category in this year's U.S. News & World Report
"Best Hospitals" issue. Norris Cotton was ranked 30th this year,
a jump of 10 places over its 2002 rank, and had the same overall
score as Yale-New Haven Hospital. The other
two New England hospitals on this year's top-50 list
were Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and
Massachusetts General Hospital. The rankings are
based on such factors as volume, mortality, national
reputation, and nurse-patient ratios.
Norris Cotton is also one of only 39 institutions nationwide designated by the National Cancer Institute as a comprehensive cancer center. Since the appointment in 2001 of Mark Israel, M.D., as its director, the center has undertaken a doubling in the size of its facility and has recruited 20 new faculty members.
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