Two clinicians in surgical caps and blue scrubs review a document in a neurosurgery operating room, with medical imaging equipment and monitors behind them. Reid Thompson,M.D. talks with neurosurgery resident Lola Chambless,M.D. in a ( Vascular?)Neurosurgery OR. Vanderbilt University Medical Center photo: Anne Rayner; VUMC

Once again, Vanderbilt University Medical Center has achieved distinction as one of the nation’s leading health care providers from U.S. News and World Report in the publication’s annual rankings for “America’s Best Hospitals.”