U.S. News & World Report has named Maine Medical Center a “Best Regional Hospital” for the fifth consecutive year in 2018. MMC also is just one of 48 hospitals out of 4,500 nationwide and the only hospital in Maine that was recognized as “high performing” in all nine procedures and conditions included in the 2017-2018 survey of U.S. hospitals: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair, Aortic Valve Surgery, Colon Cancer Surgery, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Heart, Bypass Surgery, Congestive Heart Failure, Hip Replacement, Knee Replacement, and Lung Cancer Surgery.[10]