The 30th annual version of the widely read rankings features mostly the same top 20 hospitals that made the list in years past.
For the fourth straight year, Mayo Clinic sits atop the 20 Best Hospitals rankings published Tuesday by U.S. News & World Report.
The 30th annual version of widely read rankings–which this year updated its methodology to emphasis outcomes, patient experience and risk adjustment– featured mostly the same top 20 hospitals that make the list in year's past.
The hospitals were ranked on 12 specialties: cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes and endocrinology, ear, nose and throat, gastroenterology and GI surgery, geriatrics, gynecology, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology and lung surgery, and urology.
The study evaluated nearly every community hospital in the nation. Only 165 hospitals out of more than 4,500 were nationally ranked in one specialty, while 569 were ranked among the Best Regional Hospitals in a state or metro area based on their performance in delivering complex and common care, U.S. News said.
Here’s the 2019-20 Best Hospitals Honor Roll. The numbers in parentheses are the 2018-19 rankings.
1. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. (1)
2. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (4)
3. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore (3)
4. Cleveland Clinic (2)
5. New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, N.Y.
6. UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles (7)
7. UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco (6)
8. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles (8)
9. NYU Langone Hospitals, New York, N.Y. (15)
10. Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago (13)
11. University of Michigan Hospitals-Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor (5)
12. Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Palo Alto, Calif. (9)
13. Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston (20)
14. Mount Sinai Hospital, New York (18)
15. UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, Pittsburgh (15)
16. Keck Hospital of USC, Los Angeles
17. University of Wisconsin Hospitals, Madison
18. Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia (10) (tie)
18. Mayo Clinic-Phoenix (tie) 20. Houston Methodist Hospital (11) (tie)
20. Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn. (tie)
KEY TAKEAWAYS
The 30th annual version of widely read rankings this year updated its methodology to emphasis outcomes, patient experience and risk adjustment.
The study evaluated nearly every community hospital in America. Only 165 hospitals out of more than 4,500 were nationally ranked in one specialty.