Newsweek recently released its list of the "World's Best Hospitals" for 2022, with Mayo Clinic taking the number one spot.

Cheat sheets: How hospital quality ratings work

Methodology

Newsweek, in collaboration with global market research and consumer data company Statista, formed an expert panel of medical professionals and medical journalists to assess more than 2,200 hospitals from 27 countries. To make its assessments, the panel used data from three sources:

1. Hospital recommendations provided by a survey of over 80,000 medical experts, including physicians, hospital managers, and health care professionals (55% of a hospital's total score)
2. Patient experience survey data (15% of a hospital's total score)
3. Medical key performance indicators on hospitals (30% of a hospital's total score)

The panel used the data to generate several rankings, including a list of best hospitals within each country and an overall list of the top 250 hospitals worldwide.

According to the methodology, the top 150 hospitals were ranked by "the number of international recommendations received in the survey and their national rank." The next 100 hospitals feature "the next best hospitals in each country." They are sorted alphabetically "because the data is too heterogenous between countries to allow for further cross-country comparison." The global list does not feature specialized hospitals.

The lists

Here are the global top 10 hospitals in the world, according to Newsweek:

1. Mayo Clinic-Rochester (Rochester, Minn.)

2. Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland)

3. Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston)

4. Toronto General-University Health Network (Toronto)

5. Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Berlin)

6. The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore)

7. AP-HP-Hôpital Universitaire Pitié Salpêtrière (Paris)

8. Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset (Solna, Sweden)

9. UCLA Health-Ronald Reagan Medical Center (Los Angeles)

10. Sheba Medical Center (Ramat Gan, Israel)

Here are the other U.S. hospitals listed in the "Global Top 150 Hospitals," according to Newsweek:

17. Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston)

20. Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital (Stanford, Calif.)

21. New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell (New York)

28. Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago)

29. The Mount Sinai Hospital (New York)

36. University of Michigan Hospitals-Michigan Medicine (Ann Arbor, Mich.)

39. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles)

40. Duke University Hospital (Durham, N.C.)

48. UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco)

53. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian (Philadelphia)

56. Rush University Medical Center (Chicago)

59. NYU Langone Hospitals (New York)

61. Mayo Clinic-Jacksonville (Jacksonville, Fla.)

67. UCLA Health-Santa Monica Medical Center (Santa Monica, Calif.)

68. Mayo Clinic-Phoenix (Phoenix, Ariz.)

77. Houston Methodist Hospital (Houston)

84. University of Wisconsin Hospitals (Madison, Wis.)

88. University of Washington Medical Center (Seattle)

94. Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville)

97. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston)

101. UC San Diego Health-Jacobs Medical Center (San Diego)

118. University of Chicago Medical Center (Chicago)

123. UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital (Aurora, Colo.)

135. Emory University Hospital (Atlanta)

137. University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (Cleveland)

143. University of Utah Hospital (Salt Lake City)

147. University of Kansas Hospital (Kansas City, Kan)

150. University of California-Davis Medical Center (Sacramento, Calif.)

Here are the U.S. hospitals listed alphabetically in the "Global Top 151 to 250 Hospitals," according to Newsweek:

• Barnes-Jewish Hospital (Saint Louis, Mo.)
• Baylor University Medical Center (Dallas)
• Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital (Boston)
• Cleveland Clinic-Florida (Weston, Fla.)
• Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital (Cleveland)
• Keck Hospital of USC (Los Angeles)
• Morristown Medical Center (Morristown, N.J.)
• OHSU Hospital (Portland)
• Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla (La Jolla, Calif.)
• Torrance Memorial Medical Center (Torrance, Calif.)
• Tufts Medical Center (Boston)
• UAB Hospital (Birmingham, Ala.)
• University of Virginia Medical Center (Charlottesville, Va.)
• UT Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas)
• Virginia Mason Franciscan Health-Virginia Mason Medical Center (Seattle)
• Yale New Haven Hospital (New Haven, Conn.)

(Newsweek "World's Best Hospitals 2022," accessed 3/9)