10 best healthcare cities in U.S.

Ten cities have the best healthcare in the country, based on market and hospital performance for populations, according to a new report from iVantage Health Analytics.

iVantage assessed hospital quality based on 10 equally weighted performance measures, including care quality, outcomes, patient perspective, financial stability, market size, competitive intensity and population risk.

If lower-scoring markets improve their performance, the study states, they could save up to 3,962,850 years of potential lives lost, the equivalent of an extra year of life to the entire population of Los Angeles.

"This year's findings confirm the premise...