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The WorldCare Consortium^SM: North America’s “Best” Hospitals

The WorldCare Consortium^SM is a network of some of the top medical centers in North America. With over 11,000 doctors and well-known specialists, and over 1.6 billion dollars in annual research funding, the WorldCare Consortium^SM is unique in the depth of its medical expertise. The WorldCare Consortium^SM hospitals provide high quality Second Opinions to WorldCare members, and are committed to the highest quality patient care and medical services.

The member hospitals of the WorldCare Consortium^SM include:

• Children’s Hospital
• Duke University Health System
• Mayo Clinic
• Partners HealthCare System
• UCLA Healthcare

Children’s Hospital Boston The Hospital for Children Boston, Massachusetts www.childrenshospital.org

Founded in 1869 as a 20-bed hospital for children, Children's Hospital Boston today is the nation's leading pediatric medical center and the primary pediatric teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. With more than 160 subspecialty programs, Children's Hospital Boston has more clinical breadth and depth than any other pediatric hospital. In addition to 347 pediatric and adolescent inpatient beds and comprehensive outpatient programs, Children's houses the world's largest research enterprise based at a pediatric medical center, where its discoveries benefit both children and adults. More than 500 scientists, including eight members of the National Academy of Sciences, nine members of the Institute of Medicine and 10 members of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute comprise Children's research community. U.S. News & World Report has ranked Children's one of the top two pediatric hospitals in the country for 17 straight years.

Duke University Health System One of America's Preeminent Academic Medical Centers Durham, North Carolina www.mc.duke.edu

Duke University Health System (DUHS) is a world-renowned institution dedicated to providing outstanding patient care, educating tomorrow's health care leaders, and discovering new and better ways to treat disease through biomedical research.

Founded in 1930, DUHS provides every level of health care from preventive care to multidisciplinary, diagnostic, and therapeutic care in every medical specialty. DUHS employs 1,128 primary care, specialist, and subspecialist physicians, as well as 529 faculty, and research physicians. It maintains 1,124 acute-care beds, and in 2005 admitted 38,185 patients, and provided for 763,154 outpatient visits.

For the past 17 years, U.S. News & World Report has ranked Duke University Health System among the top ten hospitals in America for demonstrating high levels of competence in 10 major medical specialties. DUHS ranked among the "Top 5 Hospitals in America" for excellence in Cardiac and Geriatric Care. DUHS also ranked among the "Top 10 Hospitals in America" for excellence in treating Cancer, Digestive Disorders, Eye Disorders, Gynecology, Kidney, Orthopedic, Rheumatological, Urological, Respiratory and Psychological Disease.

Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Florida www.mayoclinic.org

Mayo Clinic is the oldest and largest integrated, not-for-profit group practice of medicine in the world. Mayo has earned a reputation for finding answers to difficult medical questions, based on more than 100 years of results. Its patient care activities are supported by medical education and research. Mayo Clinic is consistently rated overall as one of the two top hospitals in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.

The Mayo model of care is built on teams of physicians and other medical professionals working together. A single electronic medical record for each patient facilitates collaboration. Any Mayo physician can access more than 3,000 physician and researcher colleagues in the system for help. Patients from all 50 U.S. states and more than 150 countries visit a Mayo Clinic site every year for their medical needs.

When the Jacksonville, Florida, facility opened in 1986, it was Mayo’s first expansion beyond Rochester, Minnesota. A new 214-bed hospital opened in April 2008 in Jacksonville, consolidating all services on one campus.

Mayo Clinic is designated by the National Cancer Institute as a Comprehensive Cancer Center. At its three locations in Rochester, Minnesota; Jacksonville, Florida; and Scottsdale/Phoenix, Arizona, Mayo physicians perform more than 1,100 transplants a year, making it the largest transplant program in the United States. Transplant patient survival rates consistently exceed national averages.

PARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM www.partners.org/international

Partners is one of the leading academic healthcare systems in the world and the largest private not-for-profit biomedical research enterprise in the United States. Founded by Harvard Medical School's leading teaching hospitals -- Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital -- Partners also includes Dana-Farber/Partners Cancer Care, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, McLean Psychiatric Hospital and over 4,000 Harvard faculty physicians.

UCLA Healthcare Ranked Best in West for 17th Consecutive Year Los Angeles, California www.uclahealth.org

Consistently rated as the best hospital in the western United States by U.S. News & World Report, UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California has an international reputation for quality care. UCLA scientists and physicians are at the cutting edge of biomedical research, and are leaders in bringing the latest discoveries to the benefit of patients. Thousands of patients travel from other nations each year to seek care at UCLA Medical Center for advanced treatment capabilities and the services of UCLA's renowned faculty.

The more than 1,400 full-time faculty physicians are joined by 790 residents, interns and fellows as well as over 2,500 support staff in providing both primary and tertiary care. Since it opened in July of 1955, the 668-bed hospital has marked several milestones, including the first open-heart surgery in the western U.S. (1956), the first mother-to-daughter kidney transplant on the West Coast (1960), the development of techniques for nerve transplantation (1962), the first total shoulder replacement (1976), and the first totally implantable artificial heart on the West Coast (2001).

For nearly five decades, UCLA Medical Center has provided both routine and specialized care for millions of patients from the greater Los Angeles community as well as from around the world. It has been judged the best hospital in the Western United States for the 17th consecutive year - and moves up to No. 3 in the nation - according to 2007 U.S. News & World Report.