Follow U.S. Investment Immigration to learn about life in the United States: U.S. News & World Report, known for its university rankings, has been compiling the Best Hospitals rankings for over 20 years. These rankings provide a general overview of the top hospitals in the United States. While the rankings of these hospitals may change from year to year, any hospital that makes the list is considered world-class. Let us take a look at the hospitals on the 2014 list (the Best Hospitals rankings focus primarily on adult care; children's hospitals are ranked separately).
U.S. News & World Report surveyed nearly 5,000 hospitals and medical centers across the United States and consulted over 9,500 physicians, scoring them across 16 specialties: Cancer, Cardiology and Heart Surgery, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Ear, Nose and Throat, Gastroenterology and GI Surgery, Geriatrics, Gynecology, Nephrology, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology, Urology, Ophthalmology, Psychiatry, Rehabilitation, and Rheumatology. After comprehensive classification, 17 hospitals made the list, with each hospital having achieved high scores in at least 6 specialties. Below is the list of these 17 hospitals:
1. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
2. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
3. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
4. Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
5. UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
6. New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell, New York City
7. Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
8. UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, California
9. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
10. Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
11. University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Washington
12. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
12 (tie). University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
14. Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina
15. NYU Langone Medical Center, New York City
16. Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City
17. Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
