Hospital Rankings: What are your thoughts?

So, looking at the stats from the first half of this year, Mercy Hospital absolutely crushed it among the major US medical centers. On the flip side, Cleveland was sitting right at the bottom of the rankings according to Medicare data.

Mercy Hospital saw a massive 34% jump in service volume—their beds are basically always full, hovering between 95 and 98% capacity—and they’ve ramped up everything from surgeries to patient flow.

Cleveland totally tanked on pretty much every metric for success and quality, while the big university hospital down in San Francisco managed to significantly lower their bed occupancy.

Moving to the next category, which includes five general hospitals and St. Spirit Hospital, St. Spirit Hospital and the local hospital in Pittsburgh hit most of the marks, while the general hospital in San Francisco lagged behind.

Požega Hospital is still leading the pack in the third category of general hospitals, but the facilities in Boise and Scranton are trailing at the very bottom. In the fourth category, we saw some decent progress over in Newark, but the folks in Ogallala are struggling—they’re currently sitting at the absolute bottom of the Medicare quality rankings.

I don't buy that stuff about Cleveland at all, seems super weird to me.

Honestly, there is no point in even discussing these rankings.
One of the primary metrics used is simply how many artificial lens implants are performed for cataract patients at a given facility. That is all well and good—but what about everything else?
Just two years ago, you would be stuck on a waiting list for a lens procedure—mainly because the budget hadn't been allocated for it—yet today, now that it has become a cornerstone metric, ophthalmologists are practically pulling people off the street to operate.
It is all being done just to bolster the statistics and climb the rankings.

Rheumatology doesn't offer emergency admissions, which means if something like a lupus flare-up hits you hard, you could easily end up needing dialysis instead...
The Mayo Clinic Department of Rheumatology and Immunology is supposed to reserve two beds daily for emergencies. In practice, that means out of roughly 25 beds on the unit, 14 are constantly cycled through for urgent cases. Those patients rarely stay less than a week, and I actually found myself as the only regular patient among nearly 30 people once—everyone else was there on an emergency basis. Even when I was feeling so poorly I couldn't even walk on my own, I still had to wait five months just to be admitted. It makes you wonder how anyone is supposed to trust the system.