In the controversy over the island's healthcare numbers , the San Francesco di Nuoro hospital (126th with a score of 70.31%) is the only Sardinian hospital present among the 130 best Italian hospitals in the special ranking drawn up every year by the American weekly Newsweek.
The best Italian hospital in 2024 is Gemelli in Rome with 93.58% . Last year the Barbagia hospital was in 119th place with a score of 70.75%. A statistical survey, that of Newsweek, began in March 2019.
This year, the list includes data on 2,400 hospitals in 30 countries around the world, most of Western Europe, 10 Asian countries, Australia and countries in the Americas. The former regional health councilor of the Pigliaru council, Luigi Arru, reported the data and preached prudence in his conclusions regarding the complex health issue through a post on his personal profile. The politician, who is a doctor in the hospital in Nuoro, intervenes after the controversy triggered by a post by the Nuoro journalist Elvira Serra on the situation in which the medical department found itself a couple of days ago.
Arru writes: «Healthcare is one of the most complex subjects, most difficult to evaluate, because there is great competition between multiple factors. Be careful to draw easy conclusions even after unsavory facts, for which citizens should certainly apologize for the inconvenience ."
The score attributed by Newsweek for each hospital is based, according to the American site, on an online survey of over 85,000 medical experts and public data from post-hospital patient surveys on their general satisfaction. The score also considers other factors such as hygiene and patient/doctor ratio , as well as a survey of whether hospitals use Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs), which are standardized questionnaires filled out by patients to evaluate their experience and results.
