This also comes up with rankings of cancer centers. As the rankings get based on metrics that include things like survival, taking on the hard patients can have a negative impact on their rank. I've seen this cause internal debates on how to handle.
It's nowhere near my industry and I know virtually nothing about what really goes into these sorts of things, but seems like maybe whichever organization is doing the rankings should simply make that a negative metric. Like, a super negative metric.
