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Websites of the "top" 17 US hospitals and how well nursing is featured on them

Name of Hospital Called "Hospital" Link from main page, about us or patient information page to information about the Nursing Department Link from anywhere else to information about the Nursing Department Information about nursing services provided from search engine CNO on page featuring other top hospital leaders Nurse on board of Trustees (or Directors) Nursing managers on site Media
Johns Hopkins Hospital yes main (no)
about
(no)
pt. info
(no)
clinical services (no)
no only about jobs, not aimed at patients cannot find any leaders none apparent no Gary Stephenson
Director, Media Relations
410-955-5384
gstephenson@
jhmi.edu emailed 2/29 at 12:32 pm
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston yes              
Mayo Clinic Hospital yes no       Shirley A. Weis CAO and Vice President; barely discernable as a nurse Board page no  
Cleveland Clinic Health System no main (no)
"specialties" (no)
about us (no)
pt. info
(no).
"Nursing" is one of 27 entries under "Institutes and Services" page. Links to The Zielony Institute for Nursing Excellence "oversees the practice and education of more than 11,000 nurses in Cleveland Clinic’s health system" The Zielony Institute for Nursing Excellence has quite a bit of description of various nuring activities, many pages on nursing Yes, led by Sarah Sinclair, BSN (buried on the site)   No, only the CNOs of the Cleveland Clinic's many insitutions

Megan F. Pruce, Cleveland Clinic, prucem@ccf.org, 216.445.7452
Kate Whiteley, Kirvin Doak, kwhiteley@
kirvindoak.com, 702.737.3100 sent 2/29/ 11:28 am

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles no No. Nursing does not appear under "medical departments" nor does it have its own link   only Pediatric outpatient department, lists 4 nurses nowhere to be found   no

Roxanne Moster (rmoster @mednet.ucla.edu)
Phone: (310) 794-2264 sent 2/29 11:08 am

New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell, N.Y. yes              
UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco no              
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston yes              
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. no              
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia yes              
Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis yes              
UPMC-University of Pittsburgh Medical Center no              
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle no              
University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, Ann Arbor yes              
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville no              
Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York no              
Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, Calif. no              
  53% no              
                 
Catholic Health Initiatives   no     listed last (and least), no bio, on “national leadership page. Only name listed Mary Margaret Mooney PhD, PBVM, DNSc, RN, Martha Walsh, SC, RN; Antoinette Hardy-Waller, RN, BSN, MJ Board page
no  


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