U.S. News & World Report on Tuesday released its 29th annual Best Hospitals rankings, which recognizes 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.)

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 176 total hospitals, affiliated specialty hospitals, and specialty-focused units recognized by U.S. News, 165 are Advisory Board members.

Cheat sheet: How US News calculates its 'Best Hospital' rankings

Advisory Board congratulates the member organizations named to the annual rankings:

• Abbott Northwestern Hospital (Minneapolis);
• Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital (Downers Grove, Illinois);
• Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center (Milwaukee);
• Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center (Sioux Falls, South Dakota);
• Banner Heart Hospital (Mesa, Arizona);
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• Banner University Medical Center Phoenix (Phoenix);
• Banner University Medical Center Tucson (Tucson, Arizona);
• Barnes-Jewish Hospital (St. Louis);
• Baylor Scott and White The Heart Hospital Baylor (Plano, Texas);
• Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center (Houston);
• Baylor University Medical Center (Dallas);
• Beaumont Hospital-Royal Oak (Royal Oak, Michigan);
• Beaumont Hospital-Troy (Troy, Michigan);
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston);
• Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital (Charleston, South Carolina);
• Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston);
• Carolinas Medical Center (Charlotte, North Carolina);
• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles);
• Christiana Care Hospitals (Newark, 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, Florida);
• Cole Eye Institute (Cleveland);
• Craig Hospital (Englewood, Colorado);
• Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center (Boston);
• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon, New Hampshire);
• DMC Harper University Hospital (Detroit);
• Duke University Hospital (Durham, North Carolina);
• Emory University Hospital at Wesley Woods (Atlanta);
• Emory University Hospital (Atlanta);
• Froedtert Hospital and the Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee);
• H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute (Tampa, Florida);
• Hackensack University Medical Center (Hackensack, New Jersey);
• Henry Ford Hospital (Detroit);
• Highland Hospital (Rochester, New York);
• Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian (Newport Beach, California);
• Hoag Orthopedic Institute (Newport Beach, California);
• Hospital for Special Surgery (New York);
• Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian (Philadelphia);
• Houston Methodist Hospital (Houston);
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• Huntington Memorial Hospital (Pasadena, California);
• Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah (Salt Lake City);
• Indiana University Health Medical Center (Bloomington, Indiana);
• Jefferson Health-Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals (Philadelphia);
• John Muir Health-Walnut Creek Medical Center (Walnut Creek, California);
• Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore);
• Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center (Los Angeles);
• Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center (Santa Clara, California);
• Keck Hospital of USC (Los Angeles);
• Kellogg Eye Center-Michigan Medicine (Ann Arbor, Michigan);
• Loma Linda University Medical Center (Loma Linda, California);
• Loyola University Medical Center (Maywood, Illinois);
• Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (Boston);
• Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston);
• Mayo Clinic Jacksonville (Jacksonville, Florida);
• Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minnesota);
• Mayo Clinic-Phoenix (Phoenix);
• McLean Hospital (Belmont, Massachusetts);
• Medical City Dallas (Dallas);
• MedStar Georgetown University Hospital (Washington, D.C.);
• MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute (Washington, D.C.);
• Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center (Houston);
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York);
• MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center (Long Beach, California);
• Mercy Medical Center (Baltimore);
• Miami Valley Hospital (Dayton, Ohio);
• Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbot Northwestern Hospital (Minneapolis);
• Mission Hospital (Asheville, North Carolina);
• Montefiore Medical Center (Bronx, New York);
• Morristown Medical Center (Morristown, New Jersey);
• MossRehab (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania);
• Mount Sinai Hospital (New York);
• MUSC Health-University Medical Center (Charleston, South Carolina);
• Nebraska Medicine-Nebraska Medical Center (Omaha, Nebraska);
• New England Baptist Hospital (Boston);
• New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai (New York);
• New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell (New York);
• Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital (Winfield, Illinois);
• Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago);
• NYU Langone Hospitals (New York);
• NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital (New York);
• Ochsner Medical Center (New Orleans);
• Ohio State University James Cancer Hospital (Columbus, Ohio);
• Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (Columbus, Ohio);
• OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital (Columbus, Ohio);
• OHSU Hospital (Portland, Oregon);
• Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center (Fountain Valley, California);
• Parker Adventist Hospital (Parker, Colorado);
• Penn Medicine Chester County Hospital (West Chester, Pennsylvania);
• Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center (Hershey, Pennsylvania);
• Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia);
• Porter Adventist Hospital (Denver);
• Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center (Torrance, California);
• Providence Portland Medical Center (Portland, Oregon);
• Reading Hospital (West Reading, Pennsylvania);
• Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA (Los Angeles);
• Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center (Buffalo, New York);
• Rothman Institute at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (Philadelphia);
• Rush University Medical Center (Chicago);
• Rusk Rehabilitation at NYU Langone Hospitals (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);
• Sentara Norfolk General Hospital (Norfolk, Virginia);
• Sentara Norfolk General Hospital-Sentara Heart Hospital (Norfolk, Virginia);
• Shepherd Center (Atlanta);
• Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (Chicago);
• Siteman Cancer Center (St. Louis);
• Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai (New York);
• Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital (Boston);
• St. Cloud Hospital (St. Cloud, Minnesota);
• 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);
• Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital (Stanford, California);
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• Stein and Doheny Eye Institutes, UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles);
• Strong Memorial Hospital of the University of Rochester (Rochester, New York);
• Swedish Medical Center (Englewood, Colorado);
• Tampa General Hospital (Tampa, Florida);
• Texas Heart Institute at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center (Houston);
• TIRR Memorial Hermann (Houston);
• UC Irvine Medical Center (Orange, California);
• UC San Diego Health-Moores Cancer Center (San Diego);
• UC San Diego Health-UC San Diego Medical Center (San Diego);
• UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles);
• UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco);
• UF Health Shands Hospital (Gainesville, Florida);
• United Hospital (St. Paul, Minnesota);
• University Hospital (San Antonio);
• University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (Cleveland);
• University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center (Cleveland);
• University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital (Birmingham, Alabama);
• University of California, Davis Medical Center (Sacramento, California);
• 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, Iowa);
• University of Kansas Hospital (Kansas City, Kansas);
• University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital (Lexington, Kentucky);
• University of Maryland Medical Center (Baltimore);
• University of Miami Hospital and Clinics-UHealth Tower (Miami);
• University of Michigan Hospitals-Michigan Medicine (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 Hospital (Salt Lake City);
• University of Virginia Medical Center (Charlottesville, Virginia);
• University of Washington Medical Center (Seattle);
• University of Wisconsin Hospitals (Madison, Wisconsin);
• UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside (Pittsburgh);
• USC Norris Cancer Hospital-Keck Medical Center of USC (Los Angeles);
• USC Roski Eye Institute (Los Angeles);
• UT Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas);
• UW Medicine/Harborview Medical Center (Seattle);
• Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, Tennessee);
• VCU Medical Center (Richmond, Virginia);
• Via Christi Hospital on St. Francis (Wichita, Kansas);
• Vidant Medical Center (Greenville, North Carolina);
• 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); and
• Yale New Haven Hospital (New Haven Connecticut).

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Download our one page sheets for summaries on the methodology and metric categories used in five hospital quality rating programs:

• US News and World Report Best Hospital Rankings (Updated August 14, 2018)
• US News and World Report Best Children's Hospital Rankings
• CMS Star Ratings
• Leapfrog Group Hospital Safety Grade
• Healthgrades Patient Safety Ratings and Excellence Awards
• Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals

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