The US News & World Report has released the 2018-19 Best Hospitals rankings. The Mayo, Cleveland and Johns Hopkins take top slots; several other providers that attract medical tourists are high on the list.
US News & World Report has released the 2018-19 Best Hospitals rankings. The 29th annual rankings are designed to assist patients and their doctors in making informed decisions about where to receive care.
The 2018-19 rankings compared 4,500 medical centres nationwide across 25 specialties, procedures and conditions. 158 hospitals were nationally ranked in at least one specialty. 1,100 hospitals were rated high performing in at least one common procedure or condition, and 29 received a high performing rating in all nine procedures and conditions evaluated.
For the third consecutive year, the Mayo Clinic claimed the No. 1 spot on the Best Hospitals Honour Roll list. The Cleveland Clinic ranked No. 2, followed by Johns Hopkins Hospital at No. 3. The Honour Roll is a distinction awarded to 20 hospitals that deliver exceptional treatment across multiple areas of care.
For patients seeking care close to home, US News also recognised the Best Regional Hospitals in 200 metro areas and regions across the US, ranking them based on their performance in delivering complex and common care.
The 2018-19 Best Hospitals Honour Roll
| Ranking | Name | Location |
| 1 | Mayo Clinic | Rochester |
| 2 | Cleveland Clinic | Cleveland |
| 3 | Johns Hopkins Hospital | Baltimore |
| 4 | Massachusetts General Hospital | Boston |
| 5 | University of Michigan Hospitals | Ann Arbor |
| 6 | UCSF Medical Centre | San Francisco |
| 7 | UCLA Medical Centre | Los Angeles |
| 8 | Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre | Los Angeles |
| 9 | Stanford Hospital | Stanford |
| 10 | New York-Presbyterian Hospital | New York |
| 11= | Barnes-Jewish Hospital | St Louis |
| 11= | Mayo Clinic | Phoenix |
| 13 | North Western Memorial Hospital | Chicago |
| 14 | University of Pennsylvania Hospitals | Philadelphia |
| 15= | NYU Langone Hospitals | New York |
| 15= | UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside | Pittsburgh |
| 17 | Vanderbilt University Medical Centre | Nashville |
| 18 | Mount Sinai Hospital | New York |
| 19 | Duke University Hospital | Durham |
| 20 | Brigham and Women’s Hospital | Boston |
US News & World Report Best Hospitals 2019
Top 5: cardiology and heart surgery
- Cleveland Clinic
- Mayo Clinic Rochester
- Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Top 5: cancer
- University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Centre
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre
- Mayo Clinic Rochester
- Dana-Farber /Brigham and Women’s Cancer Centre
- Cleveland Clinic
Top 5: orthopaedics
- Hospital for Special Surgery, New York
- Mayo Clinic Rochester
- Cleveland Clinic
- Rothman Institute at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals and Rush University Medical Centre
Ben Harder at US News says “For nearly three decades, US News has strived to make hospital quality more transparent to healthcare consumers nationwide. By providing the most comprehensive data available on nearly every hospital across the United States, we give patients, families and physicians information to support their search for the best care across a range of procedures, conditions and specialties.”
The US News Best Hospitals methodologies in most areas of care are based largely or entirely on objective measures such as risk-adjusted survival and readmission rates, volume, patient experience, patient safety and quality of nursing, among other care-related indicators. Prominent changes to the 2018-19 rankings methodology included more emphasis on patient outcomes and patient experience measures.
Research group RTI International produces the rankings for US News. US News & World Report is a digital news and information company and the rankings have been published in the US News Best Hospitals 2019 guidebook.
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