Mayo Clinic comes out on top as U.S. News and World Report unveils 2018-19 Best Hospitals
More than 1,100 hospitals were rated high performing in at least one common procedure or condition.
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For the third consecutive year, the Mayo Clinic claimed the top spot on U.S. News and World Report's Best Hospitals list, with the 2018-19 rankings comparing more than 4,500 medical centers nationwide across 25 specialties, procedures and conditions.
This year, a total of 158 hospitals were nationally ranked in at least one specialty. More than 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.
The Cleveland Clinic ranked No. 2 on the honor roll, followed by Johns Hopkins Hospital at No. 3. The honor roll is a distinction awarded to 20 hospitals that deliver exceptional treatment across multiple areas of care.
For patients seeking care close to home, U.S. News also recognized the Best Regional Hospitals in 200 metro areas and regions across the U.S., ranking them based on their performance in delivering complex and common care.
Broken down by specialty, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center ranked best nationally for cancer care, while the Cleveland Clinic was tops in cardiology and heart surgery. University of Michigan Hospitals-Michigan Medicine was deemed No. 1 in ear, nose and throat, and opthamology was led by Bascom Palmer Eye Institute-University of Miami.
The Mayo Clinic was No. 1 in several categories, including diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology, geriatrics, gynecology, nephrology, and neurology and neurosurgery.
Other top-ranked hospitals include Hospital for Special Surgery (orthopedics); McLean Hospital (psychiatry); National Jewish Health, Denver-University of Colorado Hospital (pulmonology); Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (rehabilitation); Johns Hopkins Hospital (rheumatology); and the Cleveland Clinic (urology).
The U.S. 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.
