Houston Northwest Medical Center Houston, Texas

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Houston Northwest Medical Center is a 498-bed facility that opened back in 1973. Today, Houston Northwest Medical Center has a medical staff of 650, of which 379 of those are active physicians. The hospital is able to offer 54 different medical specialties to patients who come from all over Southeast Texas for treatment there.

Among the many services offered by Houston Northwest Medical Center: cardiovascular care; women's services; orthopedics; emergency services; oncology; neurosciences and neurosurgery; pediatrics; outpatient surgery; and many others.

Solucient recently named Houston Northwest Medical Center one of the Top 100 Hospitals in the nation.

Houston Northwest Medical Center was one of only five Texas hospitals on the list, which was published in Modern Healthcare magazine. The study done by the Solucient Institute of Evanston, Illinois, sets benchmarks for hospitals to achieve the most cost-efficient and highest quality of medical care. The rankings are based on eight different criteria, which measure clinical quality practices, operations and financial management. Those criteria are: risk-adjusted mortality index; risk-adjusted complications index; severity adjusted average length of stay; cash flow margin (profitability); proportion of outpatient revenue; productivity; quality of hospital's data; expense per adjusted discharge.

Note: Houston Northwest Medical Center was in the large community hospitals category.

If you are a nurse who is seeking work, Houston Northwest Medical Center has numerous nursing positions that are currently open. Houston Northwest Medical Center is a part of the Tenet Health System, and offers a competitive wage and benefit package, as an enticement to lure top candidates to the hospital's staff of nurses.

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