U.S. News & World Report on Tuesday announced its 2018-2019 lists of the "Best Children's Hospitals" in the United States, which names the 10 best children's hospitals in the country as well as the top 50 children's hospitals in 10 specialties.
For the lists, U.S. News requested medical information and other data from 189 facilities, of which 118 supplied sufficient information to be evaluated for at least one of 10 specialties. Overall, 86 hospitals ranked on one or more lists.
Advisory Board congratulates the following members named to the 10th annual list:
- Advocate Children's Hospital (Oak Lawn, Illinois);
- Advocate Children's Hospital (Park Ridge, Illinois);
- Akron Children's Hospital (Akron, Ohio);
- American Family Children's Hospital (Madison, Wisconsin);
- Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago (Chicago);
- Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children (Orlando, Florida);
- Brenner Children's Hospital (Winston-Salem, North Carolina);
- C.S. Mott Children's Hospital-Michigan Medicine (Anne Arbor, Michigan);
- Children's Cancer Hospital-University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (Houston);
- Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (Atlanta);
- Children's Hospital at Montefiore (New York);
- Children's Hospital Colorado (Aurora, Colorado);
- Children's Hospital Los Angeles (Los Angeles);
- Children's Hospital of Alabama at UAB (Birmingham, Alabama);
- Children's Hospital of Michigan (Detroit, Michigan);
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia);
- Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC (Pittsburgh);
- Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU (Richmond, Virginia);
- Children's Medical Center Dallas (Dallas);
- Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital (Houston);
- Children's Mercy Hospital (Kansas City, Missouri);
- Children's National Medical Center (Washington, D.C.);
- CHOC Children's Hospital (Orange, California);
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati);
- Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital (Cleveland);
- Cohen Children's Medical Center (New Hyde Park, New York);
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center (Hartford, Connecticut);
- Cook Children's Medical Center (Fort Worth, Texas);
- Dayton Children's Hospital (Dayton, Ohio);
- Doernbecher Children's Hospital at Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon);
- Duke Children's Hospital and Health Center (Durham, North Carolina);
- Florida Hospital for Children (Orlando, Florida);
- Holtz Children's Hospital at UM-Jackson Memorial Medical Center (Miami);
- Hospital for Special Surgery (New York);
- Inova Children's Hospital (Falls Church, Virginia);
- Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital at Memorial (Hollywood, Florida);
- Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital (St. Petersburg, Florida);
- Johns Hopkins Children's Center (Baltimore);
- Le Bonheur Children's Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee);
- Levine Children's Hospital (Charlotte, North Carolina);
- Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford (Palo Alto, California);
- MassGeneral Hospital for Children (Boston);
- Mayo Clinic Children's Center (Rochester, Minnesota);
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York);
- Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt (Nashville, Tennessee);
- Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital (New York);
- MUSC Health-Children's Hospital (Charleston, South Carolina);
- Nationwide Children's Hospital (Columbus, Ohio);
- Nemours Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children (Wilmington, Delaware);
- New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley-Komansky Children's Hospital (New York);
- Nicklaus Children's Hospital (Miami);
- North Carolina Children's Hospital at UNC (Chapel Hill);
- Norton Children's Hospital (Louisville, Kentucky);
- NYU Winthrop Hospital Children's Medical Center (Mineola, New York);
- Ochsner Hospital for Children (New Orleans);
- OSF HealthCare Children's Hospital of Illinois (Peoria, Illinois);
- Penn State Children's Hospital (Hershey, Pennsylvania);
- Phoenix Children's Hospital (Phoenix);
- Primary Children's Hospital (Salt Lake City);
- Rady Children's Hospital (San Diego);
- Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital (Cleveland);
- Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health (Indianapolis);
- Seattle Children's Hospital (Seattle);
- Spectrum Health Helen DeVos Children's Hospital (Grand Rapids, Michigan);
- SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital-St. Louis University (St. Louis);
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee);
- St. Louis Children's Hospital-Washington University (St. Louis);
- UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital (Los Angeles);
- UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals (San Francisco and Oakland, California);
- UF Health Shands Children's Hospital (Gainesville, Florida);
- University of California Davis Children's Hospital (Sacramento, California);
- University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital (Chicago);
- University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital (Iowa City, Iowa);
- University of Maryland Children's Hospital (Baltimore);
- University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital (Minneapolis);
- University of Virginia Children's Hospital (Charlottesville, Virginia);
- Valley Children's Healthcare and Hospital (Madera, California);
- West Virginia University Children's Hospital (Morgantown, West Virginia);
- Wolfson Children's Hospital (Jacksonville, Florida); and
- Yale New Haven Children's Hospital (New Haven, Connecticut) (Harder/Comarow, U.S. News, 6/26; U.S. News, 6/26).
Just updated: Learn how US News—and 4 other rankings programs—actually work
Download our one page sheets for summaries on the methodology and metric categories used in seven hospital quality rating programs:
- US News and World Report Best Children's Hospital Rankings
- CMS Overall Star Ratings
- CMS HCAHPS Patient Experience Star Rating
- Healthgrades Patient Safety Ratings and Excellence Awards
- Healthgrades Outstanding Patient Experience Awards
- Leapfrog Group Hospital Safety Grade
- Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals