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Rank of Stanford Hospital and Clinics in U.S. News & World Report’s 2008 “Best Hospitals” list: 16
Medical staff at Stanford Hospital: 1,910
Annual outpatient and emergency room visits: 446,384
Full-time faculty physicians with Stanford Clinics: 493
Visits to doctor’s offices nation-wide in 2006, per 100 persons: 306.6
Average time per visit spent with a physician, in minutes: 21.8
Percent of visits at which at least one drug was prescribed: 70.6
Sources: Stanford Hospital and Clinics; National Health Statistics Reports
