Every list of the best healthcare cities in the country reads like my grandfather’s history teacher wrote them. They’re usually based on the same metrics: which city has the most NIH dollars, the most venture capital and the size of the healthcare workforce in that city.
The best report in recent years came from the Milken Institute, which in 2009 ranked Boston, Philadelphia, greater San Francisco, greater New York and greater Raleigh-Durham as the best five life sciences cities.
A report last week from Jones Lang LaSalle also had Boston, New York-New Jersey and San Francisco in its top five, but also included Los Angeles and Washington, D.C./suburban Maryland (I’ve placed each study’s full list at the bottom of this story).
To read the full, original article click on this link: For those planning to live beyond 2011, a real list of top medical cities
