Best US Hospitals
U.S. News & World Report has released its 23rd annual Best Hospitals rankings. Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston is #1 on the U.S. News Honor Roll this year, displacing Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital, which had been No. 1 on the Honor Roll for 21 years in a row.
In all, this year’s rankings showcase 732 hospitals out of nearly 4,800 hospitals nationwide, including the best in each of 16 medical specialties and in more than 90 metropolitan areas. For the first time, U.S. News has also named a No. 1 hospital in each state where hospitals met the publication’s rigorous criteria.
“The nationally ranked hospitals are referral centers where other hospitals send their sickest patients,” said Avery Comarow, U.S. News Health Rankings Editor. “These are hospitals that patients and their families should consider, with guidance from a medical professional, when the stakes are high.”
Only 148 hospitals earned a national ranking in one or more of the 16 specialties, which include cancer, cardiology & heart surgery, orthopedics, and pulmonology. The top-ranked hospitals in those four specialties are listed below.
Cancer: University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
Cardiology & Heart Surgery: Cleveland Clinic
Orthopedics: Hospital for Special Surgery, New York
Pulmonology: National Jewish Health, Denver-University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora
The Best Hospitals in all 16 specialties are listed here: www.usnews.com/besthospitals
U.S. News Best Hospitals 2012-13 – Cancer
#1 University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
#2 Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY
#3 Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD
U.S. News Best Hospitals 2012-13 – Cardiology & Heart Surgery
#1 Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
#2 Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
#3 Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD
U.S. News Best Hospitals 2012-13 – Diabetes & Endocrinology
#1 Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
#2 Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
#3 Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
U.S. News Best Hospitals 2012-13 – Ear, Nose & Throat
#1 Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD
#2 Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
#3 Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
U.S. News Best Hospitals 2012-13 – Gastroenterology
#1 Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
#2 Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
#3 Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD
U.S. News Best Hospitals 2012-13 – Geriatrics
#1 Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD
#2 Mount Sinai Medical Center
New York, NY
#3 Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA
U.S. News Best Hospitals 2012-13 – Gynecology
#1 Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
#2 Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA
#3 Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
U.S. News Best Hospitals 2012-13 – Nephrology
#1 Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
#2 Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
#3 New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell
New York, NY
U.S. News Best Hospitals 2012-13 – Neurology & Neurosurgery
#1 Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD
#2 Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
#3 Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
U.S. News Best Hospitals 2012-13 – Ophthalmology
#1 Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami
Miami, FL
#2 Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD
#3 Wills Eye Hospital
Philadelphia, PA
U.S. News Best Hospitals 2012-13 – Rehabilitation
#1 Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
#2 Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation
West Orange, NJ
#3 TIRR Memorial Hermann
Houston, TX
U.S. News Best Hospitals 2012-13 – Psychiatry
#1 Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD
#2 McLean Hospital
Belmont, MA
#3 Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
U.S. News Best Hospitals 2012-13 – Pulmonology
#1 National Jewish Health, Denver-University of Colorado Hospital
Aurora, CO
#2 Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
#3 Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
U.S. News Best Hospitals 2012-13 – Rheumatology
#1 Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD
#2 Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
#3 Hospital for Special Surgery
New York, NY
U.S. News Best Hospitals 2012-13 – Urology
#1 Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
#2 Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD
#3 Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
