U.S. News & World Report on Tuesday released its annual ranking of the "Best Children's Hospitals" in the United States, and this year, 76 Advisory Board members made the cut.
For the lists—which included both a list of the best overall children's hospitals and rankings in 10 specialties—U.S. News requested medical information and other data from 191 facilities, of which 125 supplied sufficient information to be evaluated for at least one of the specialties. Overall, 84 hospitals ranked on one or more lists.
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Advisory Board congratulates the following members named to the 13th annual list:
- AdventHealth for Children (Orlando, Florida);
- Advocate Children's Heart Institute (Chicago);
- American Family Children's Hospital (Madison, Wisconsin);
- Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago (Chicago);
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital at RWJ University Hospital (New Brunswick, New Jersey);
- C.S. Mott Children's Hospital-Michigan Medicine (Ann 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 at St. Peter's University Hospital (New Brunswick, New Jersey);
- 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 at Michigan (Detroit);
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia);
- Children's Medical Center Dallas (Dallas);
- Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital (Houston);
- Children's Mercy Kansas City (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);
- Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center (Boston);
- 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);
- Hackensack Meridian Health Sanzari and Hovnanian Children's Hospitals (Hackensack, New Jersey);
- Holtz Children's Hospital at UM-Jackson Memorial Medical Center (Miami);
- 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);
- Lerner Children's Pavilion-Hospital for Special Surgery (New York);
- 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 Children's 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 L. DuPont Hospital for Children (Wilmington, Delaware);
- New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley-Komansky Children's Hospital (New York);
- Nicklaus Children's Hospital (Miami, Florida);
- North Carolina Children's Hospital at UNC (Chapel Hill, North Carolina);
- Norton Children's Hospital (Louisville, Kentucky);
- NYU Winthrop Hospital Children's Medical Center (Mineola, New York);
- Ochsner Hospital for Children (New Orleans);
- 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);
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- 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);
- UC Davis Children's Hospital (Sacramento, California);
- UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital (Los Angeles);
- UF Health Shands Children's Hospital (Gainesville, Florida);
- 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);
- UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals (San Francisco and Oakland);
- UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania);
- 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) ("Best Children's Hospitals," U.S. News & World Report, 6/18).
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