The annual listing, which has included MCGHealth four out of the past five years, identifies the nation’s top hospitals that have achieved better-than-average results in maintaining financial strength, low costs and reasonable charges for its services. MCGHealth is the second lowest cost medical complex in the University HealthSystem Consortium, which is an alliance of 97 academic medical centers and 153 of their affiliated hospitals representing nearly 90 percent of the nation’s non-profit academic medical centers.

"This is prestigious list because it is based on objective data. We went head to head with some of the nation’s most preeminent academic medical centers and beat them based on our value and quality," said Don Snell, President and CEO of MCGHealth.

This year’s findings are published in Cleverley + Associates’ "State of the Hospital Industry - 2008 edition". Ohio-based Cleverley is a leading healthcare financial consulting firm specializing in operational benchmarking and performance enhancement. Go to cleverleyassociates.com for additional information on the study.

MCG Health, Inc. (d/b/a MCGHealth) is a not-for-profit corporation operating the MCGHealth Medical Center, MCGHealth Children’s Medical Center, the Georgia Radiation Therapy Center, and related outpatient facilities and services throughout the state. For more information, please visit mcghealth.org.