For the second straight year, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center did not crack the Top 50 in the annual U.S. News & World Report ranking of the country’s top cancer hospitals – a list that Western New York’s premier cancer hospital used to appear on regularly.
The 2023-24 rankings, released Tuesday, did not assign Roswell Park a numbered ranking – it only ranks the Top 50 – but the Buffalo institution’s overall score of 51 (out of 100) was the 95th-highest score among cancer hospitals.
That was better than Roswell Park’s score last year of 48.9, though that figure was the 76th-highest mark a year ago.
In an email to employees Tuesday, President and CEO Candace S. Johnson blasted U.S. News & World Report’s methodology, saying the process the publication “uses to build this feature is surrounded by significant and well-founded questions and criticisms.”
Western New York’s premier cancer institution is looking to hire a public relations firm to promote its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, a contract with an estimated value of $50,000 to $500,000 over a term of three to five years.
“Know this: This list says nothing about the care we provide to our patients,” Johnson said in the message, which Roswell Park shared with The Buffalo…
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