Editor's note: This story has been updated.
U.S. News & World Report on Tuesday released its 28th annual Best Hospitals rankings, which recognizes 152 hospitals for their performance and reputation across 16 medical specialties. In addition, the rankings covered several affiliated specialty hospitals and specialty-focused units.
(See the related article in today's Daily Briefing for more information on the U.S. News methodology.)
Advisory Board congratulates the 165 member hospitals named to the annual rankings.
All 20 organizations on the U.S. News "Honor Roll"—which recognizes top performance across six or more specialties—are Advisory Board members. Of the 178 total hospitals, affiliated specialty hospitals, and specialty-focused units recognized by U.S. News, 166 are Advisory Board members:
- Abbot Northwestern Hospital (Minneapolis)
- Advocate Christ Medical Center (Oak Lawn, Illinois)
- Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center (Chicago)
- Advocate Lutheran General Hospital (Park Ridge, Illinois)
- Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center (Milwaukee)
- Banner Estrella Medical Center (Phoenix)
- Banner University Medical Center Phoenix (Phoenix)
- Banner University Medical Center Tucson (Tucson)
- Barnes-Jewish Hospital (St. Louis)
- Bascom Palmer Eye Institute-Anne Bates Leach Eye Hospital (Miami)
- Baylor All Saints Medical Center at Fort Worth (Fort Worth)
- Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, Houston (Houston)
- Baylor University Medical Center (Dallas)
- Beaumont Hospital-Royal Oak (Michigan)
- Boston Medical Center (Boston)
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston)
- Carolinas Medical Center (Charlotte, North Carolina)
- Christ Hospital (Cincinnati)
- Christiana Care Hospitals (Wilmington, Delaware)
- City of Hope Helford Clinical Research Hospital (Duarte, California)
- Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland)
- Cleveland Clinic Akron General (Akron, Ohio)
- Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital (Cleveland)
- Cleveland Clinic Florida (Weston)
- Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland)
- Craig Hospital (Englewood, Colorado)
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center (Boston)
- DMC Harper University Hospital (Detroit)
- Duke University Hospital (Durham, North Carolina)
- Emory University Hospital (Atlanta)
- Flagstaff Medical Center (Arizona)
- Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia)
- H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute (Tampa, Florida)
- Hackensack University Medical Center (Hackensack, New Jersey)
- Hahnemann University Hospital (Philadelphia)
- Heart Hospital Baylor Plano (Plano, Texas)
- Henry Ford Hospital (Detroit)
- Hillcrest Hospital (Mayfield Heights, Ohio)
- Hoag Memorial Presbyterian (Newport Beach, California)
- Hospital for Joint Diseases, NYU Langone Medical Center (New York)
- Hospital for Special Surgery (New York)
- Hospital for Special Surgery, New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell (New York)
- Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian (Philadelphia)
- Houston Methodist Hospital (Houston)
- Huntington Memorial Hospital (Pasadena, California)
- Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah (Salt Lake City)
- Indiana University Health University Hospital (Indianapolis)
- Intermountain Medical Center (Murray, Utah)
- IU Health Academic Health Center (Indianapolis)
- John Muir Medical Center (Walnut Creek, California)
- Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore)
- Keck Medical Center of USC (Los Angeles)
- Lehigh Valley Hospital (Allentown, Pennsylvania)
- Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC (Pittsburgh)
- Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (Boston)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston)
- Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minnesota)
- Mayo Clinic Jacksonville (Jacksonville, Florida)
- Mayo Clinic Phoenix (Phoenix)
- McLean Hospital (Belmont, Massachusetts)
- Medical City Dallas Hospital (Dallas)
- MedStar Georgetown University Hospital (Washington, D.C.)
- MedStar Washington Hospital Center (Washington, D.C.)
- Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center (Houston)
- Memorial Medical Center (Modesto, California)
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York)
- Mercy Medical Center (Baltimore)
- Miami Valley Hospital (Dayton, Ohio)
- Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital (Minneapolis)
- Montefiore Medical Center (New York)
- Morristown Medical Center (Morristown, New Jersey)
- MossRehab (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania)
- Mount Sinai Hospital (New York)
- MUSC Health-University Medical Center (Charleston)
- National Jewish Health, Denver-University of Colorado Hospital (Denver)
- Nebraska Medicine-Nebraska Medical Center (Omaha)
- New England Baptist Hospital (Boston)
- New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai (New York)
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital (New York)
- Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital (Winfield, Illinois)
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago)
- NYU Langone Medical Center (New York)
- NYU Winthrop Hospital (Mineola, New York)
- Ochsner Medical Center (New Orleans)
- Ohio State University James Cancer Hospital (Columbus)
- Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (Columbus)
- OhioHealth Riverside Hospital in Columbus (Columbus)
- OHSU Hospital (Portland, Oregon)
- OSF St. Francis Medical Center (Peoria, Illinois)
- Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
- Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center (Hershey, Pennsylvania)
- Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia)
- Porter Adventist Hospital (Denver)
- Providence Portland Medical Center (Oregon)
- Reading Hospital and Medical Center (West Reading, Pennsylvania)
- Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA (Los Angeles)
- Rochester General Hospital (New York)
- Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles)
- Rose Medical Center (Denver)
- Roswell Park Cancer Institute (Buffalo, New York)
- Rothman Institute at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (Philadelphia)
- Rush University Medical Center (Chicago)
- Rusk Rehabilitation at NYU Langone Medical Center (New York)
- Sanford USD Medical Center (Sioux Falls, South Dakota)
- Scripps La Jolla Hospitals (La Jolla, California)
- Seattle Cancer Care Alliance/University of Washington Medical Center (Seattle)
- Seidman Cancer Center at UH Case Medical (Cleveland)
- Sentara Norfolk General Hospital (Norfolk, Virginia)
- Sharp Memorial Hospital (San Diego)
- Shepherd Center (Atlanta)
- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (Chicago)
- Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital (Boston)
- Spectrum Health Hospitals Butterworth-Blodgett Campuses (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
- St. Cloud Hospital (Minnesota)
- St. Francis Hospital (Roslyn, New York)
- St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor Hospital (Michigan)
- St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center (Phoenix)
- St. Luke's Hospital of Kansas City (Kansas City, Missouri)
- St. Luke's Regional Medical Center (Boise, Idaho)
- St. Patrick Hospital (Missoula, Montana)
- Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital (Stanford, California)
- Stein and Doheny Eye Institutes, UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles)
- Tampa General Hospital (Tampa, Florida)
- Texas Heart Institute at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center (Houston)
- Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals (Philadelphia)
- TIRR Memorial Hermann (Houston)
- Tufts Medical Center (Boston)
- UAB Hospital (Birmingham, Alabama)
- UC Irvine Medical Center (Orange, California)
- UC San Diego Health-Moores Cancer Center (San Diego, California)
- UC San Diego Medical Center (San Diego, California)
- UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco, California)
- UF Health Jacksonville (Jacksonville, Florida)
- UF Health Shands Hospital (Gainesville, Florida)
- University Hospital (San Antonio)
- University of California, Davis Medical Center (Sacramento)
- University of Chicago Medical Center (Chicago)
- University of Cincinnati Medical Center (Cincinnati)
- University of Colorado Hospital (Aurora, Colorado)
- University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (Iowa City)
- University of Kansas Hospital (Kansas City)
- University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital (Lexington, Kentucky)
- University of Maryland Medical Center (Baltimore)
- University of Miami Hospital (Miami, Florida)
- University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
- University of Minnesota Medical Center (Fairview, Minnesota)
- University of North Carolina Hospitals (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
- University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston)
- University of Utah Health Care-Hospital and Clinics (Salt Lake City)
- University of Virginia Medical Center (Charlottesville, Virginia)
- University of Washington Medical Center (Seattle)
- University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics (Madison, Wisconsin)
- UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside (Pittsburgh)
- UR Medicine Strong Memorial Hospital (Rochester, New York)
- USC Eye Institute-Keck Medical Center of USC (Los Angeles)
- USC Norris Cancer Hospital-Keck Medical Center of USC (Los Angeles)
- UT Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas)
- UW Medicine/Harborview Medical Center (Seattle)
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville)
- VCU Medical Center (Richmond)
- W.K. Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
- Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
- West Virginia University Hospitals (Morgantown, West Virginia)
- Wills Eye Hospital, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (Philadelphia)
- Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore)
- Yale-New Haven Hospital (New Haven, Connecticut)
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