{"id":2935,"date":"2013-01-18T10:52:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T10:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.semmelweis-univ.hu\/?p=2935"},"modified":"2015-12-11T10:59:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T09:59:49","slug":"heart-centre-voted-hospital-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/2013\/01\/heart-centre-voted-hospital-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Centre voted Hospital of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Semmelweis University\u2019s Heart Centre has been voted Hospital of the Year in an online poll conducted by H\u00e1zipatika.com. Voted on by the patients themselves, the clinic received high scores in all five categories (professional physician care; nursing and professional staff; infrastructure; medical care; and hospital environment and cleanliness).<\/p>\n

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At the awards ceremony, Dr. B\u00e9la Merkely, director of the Heart Centre, said that the positive feedback received from patients during their everyday medical activities is what gives him and his staff the greatest strength to do their work. He stressed, however, that the award is equally meant for Semmelweis University, which, as Hungary\u2019s leading health care institution, supports the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. \u201cThis is an area where, if the patients come to us in time, we have many possibilities for saving their lives and ensuring their full recovery,\u201d Dr. B\u00e9la Merkely said. The director also noted that, although 2012 was not an easy year for the sector, the number of heart transplants tripled at the Heart Centre and, three weeks ago, they performed the second successful permanent artificial heart implant.<\/p>\n

More than forty thousand individuals submitted an online vote in the five aforementioned categories over the course of the two-month-long voting period, which concluded in the middle of December last year. B\u00e1cs-Kiskun County Hospital in Kecskem\u00e9t finished in second place, while the K\u00e1tai G\u00e1bor Hospital-Clinic in Karcag earned a third place standing.<\/p>\n

\"Rector<\/p>\n

In addition to the aggregate results, winners were announced in the individual categories as well. Veszpr\u00e9m county\u2019s Csolnoky Ferenc Hospital achieved the best results in the professional physician care category. Dr. \u00c1goston Sz\u00e9l, rector of Semmelweis University, presented the award to Hospital Director Jen\u0151 R\u00e1cz. In his laudation, Dr. \u00c1goston Sz\u00e9l emphasised: those voting in the professional physician care category clearly also evaluated how the doctors treat, interact and communicate with their patients. The Csolnoky Ferenc Hospital\u2019s motto \u2013 \u201cThe patient\u2019s salvation is the supreme law\u201d \u2013 is an excellent hallmark of this. He added: It is at the heart of medical training at the university to ensure that, despite all difficulties, future doctors will be able to carry out their work at a suitably high standard. Over the course of the training, it is of utmost importance to maintain a balance between theory and clinical practice.<\/p>\n

This occasion marks the eighth time that H\u00e1ziPatika.com has organised the Hospital of the Year competition. R\u00f3bert Pilling, the portal\u2019s managing editor, emphasised: what makes this initiative unique, is that it allows the patients to directly give their opinion on the medical institutions where they had been treated.<\/p>\n

P\u00e1lma Dobozi<\/p>\n

Translated by Gina Varga-G\u00f6nczi<\/p>\n

Photos by Bal\u00e1zs D. Kiss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Semmelweis University\u2019s Heart Centre has been voted Hospital of the Year in an online poll conducted by H\u00e1zipatika.com. Voted on by the patients themselves, the clinic received high scores in all five categories (professional physician care; nursing and professional staff; infrastructure; medical care; and hospital environment and cleanliness). At the awards ceremony, Dr. B\u00e9la Merkely, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-news","category-semmelweis-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6832,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions\/6832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}