For the seventh consecutive year, the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., took the top spot in the annual honor roll of best hospitals, published July 26 by U.S. News & World Report.
The 2022 rankings, which marks the 33rd edition, showcase several methodology changes, including new ratings for ovarian, prostate, and uterine cancer surgeries that “provide patients ... with previously unavailable information to assist them in making a critical health care decision,” a news release from the publication explains.
said the release. Finally, a new metric called “home time” determines how successfully each hospital helps patients return home.
Mayo Clinic remains No. 1
For the 2022-2023 rankings and ratings, U.S. News compared more than 4,500 medical centers across the country in 15 specialties and 20 procedures and conditions. Of these, 493 were recognized as Best Regional Hospitals as a result of their overall strong performance.
The list was then narrowed to the top 20 hospitals, outlined in the honor roll below, that deliver “exceptional treatment across multiple areas of care.”
Following Mayo Clinic in the annual ranking’s top spot, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles rises from No. 6 to No. 2, and New York University Langone Hospitals finish third, up from eighth in 2021.
Cleveland Clinic in Ohio holds the No. 4 spot, down two from 2021, while Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles tie for fifth place. Rounding out the top 10, in order, are: New York–Presbyterian Hospital–Columbia and Cornell, New York; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago; Stanford (Calif.) Health Care–Stanford Hospital.
The following hospitals complete the top 20 in the United States:
- 11. Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis
- 12. UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
- 13. Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania–Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia
- 14. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
- 15. Houston Methodist Hospital
- 16. Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
- 17. University of Michigan Health–Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor
- 18. Mayo Clinic–Phoenix
- 19. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tenn.
- 20. Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
For the specialty rankings, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, remains No. 1 in cancer care, the Cleveland Clinic is No. 1 in cardiology and heart surgery, and the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York is No. 1 in orthopedics.
Top five for cancer
- 1. University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
- 2. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York
- 3. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
- 4. Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, Boston
- 5. UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles