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More Than 170 Penn State Hershey physicians named Best Doctors

One-hundred-seventy-one (171) Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center physicians were selected for inclusion in the Best Doctors In America® 2011-2012 database, more than any other health care organization in the central Pennsylvania region. Best Doctors is a nationally recognized database that contains names and professional profiles of physicians chosen through an exhaustive peer-review survey in which thousands of physicians are asked to name the best clinical practitioners in their specialties. Only 5 percent of the doctors in America earn a spot on the list.

“The Best Doctors database underscores yet again the extent to which our providers are respected nationally by their peers for their clinical excellence, innovation and commitment to our patients,” said Harold L. Paz, Medical Center chief executive officer, senior vice president for health affairs, Penn State, and dean, Penn State College of Medicine.

The 171 Penn State Hershey Medical Center physicians chosen for the list represent nearly 24 percent of the more than 720 clinical faculty members at Penn State Hershey Medical Center. The latest edition of Best Doctors includes 16 more Penn State Hershey physicians than the 2009-2010 list. Fifty-one Penn State Hershey specialists were selected for more than one category.

“That 171 physicians have been recognized by Best Doctors is a reflection of the highest quality care that is provided at Penn State Hershey,” said Gregory M. Caputo, chief quality officer, Penn State Hershey Medical Center. “Our doctors practice as members of highly skilled teams, dedicated to excellence in health care."

The current listing, Best Doctors in America, 2011-2012, created by Best Doctors, Inc., results from exhaustive polling of more than 50,000 physicians in the United States. Doctors in more than 400 subspecialties of medicine appear on this year’s list. In a confidential review, current ‘best doctors’ answer questions such as, If you or a loved one needed a doctor in your specialty, to whom would you refer?” Only those who earn the consensus support of their peers and meet additional research criteria are included on the list.

Best Doctors, Inc. evaluates the review results, verifying licensure, certification and disciplinary actions. The experts who are part of the Best Doctors in America® database provide the most advanced medical knowledge to patients with serious conditions.

Best Doctors’ surveys are designed to mimic the informal peer-to-peer referral process that physicians themselves use to determine appropriate specialists for individual cases. Doctors cannot pay to be included in the database, nor are they paid to be in the database. Doctors do not have to purchase anything to be included.

For a complete listing of the Penn State Hershey Medical Center providers named to the 2010-2011 Best Doctors list, go to www.pennstatehershey.org/bestdoctors or for more information visit www.bestdoctors.com.

Last Updated January 9, 2015

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