U.S. News and World Report is out with its Best Hospitals list, which evaluates and ranks health care facilities across the country. Specifically, the lists are broken down on outcomes and more across specialties.
"The main thing that we want to be measuring and hoping patients understand, are the outcomes that hospitals achieve," says Ben Harder, managing editor and chief of Health Analysis. "So we have complex statistical algorithms that we apply to millions or records, of patient encounters with hospitals, to understand which hospitals are getting better outcomes than we expect."
Not surprisingly, Rochester's Mayo Clinic is ranked in the top five in the country in 10 specialties, including number one rankings in diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology and GI surgeries along with pulmonary and lung issues.
See the entire list and U.S. News and World Report's methodology here.
The Best Hospitals Honor Roll for 2023-24:
Barnes-Jewish Hospital
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Cleveland Clinic
Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian
Houston Methodist Hospital
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital
Mayo Clinic
Mount Sinai Hospital
New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell
North Shore University Hospital at Northwell Health
Northwestern Medicine-Northwestern Memorial Hospital
NYU Langone Hospitals
Rush University Medical Center
Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital
UCLA Medical Center
UC San Diego Health-La Jolla and Hillcrest Hospitals
UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center
University of Michigan Health-Ann Arbor
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Vanderbilt University Medical Center