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MUSC's DDC ranked among nation's best  The MUSC Medical Center has been named by U.S. News and World Report as one of the country’s best hospitals in the treatment of digestive disorders. The rankings will be published in the magazine’s July 22 issue which appeared on the newsstands July 15. This is the sixth straight year that MUSC’s Digestive Disease Center was named to the list. It is ranked number 14 out of the total of 50 hospitals that the magazine listed as being top facilities in the country; moving up from 24th place last year. Since 1990, U.S. News has identified medical centers with unique capabilities in one or more areas. This year, the magazine sifted data from 6,045 hospitals to arrive at 205 stellar centers in 17 specialties.  To be ranked, a hospital first must either belong to the Council of Teaching Hospitals, be affiliated with a medical school, or have at least nine technology services out of a prescribed list of 17. That narrowed the field to 1,958 this year. Eligibility for ranking in 13 of the 17 specialties, including digestive diseases, depends on performing a specified number of defined procedures during the past four years for which data is available or being named by at least one physician in U.S. News surveys during the past four years.  Hospitals that meet these requirements receive a score, or U.S. News Index, that combines reputation, mortality, and a group of other factors related to patient care, such as nursing and technology.  The 50 hospitals with the highest scores in each of the  13 specialties appear in this issue.   Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to petersnd@musc.edu or catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Community Press at 849-1778.