11 Hospitals With Top Ratings in 17 Procedures and Conditions

Ben Harder
·2 min read

As part of the Best Hospitals rankings and ratings, U.S. News evaluated more than 4,000 hospitals for their handling of seven chronic conditions and up to 10 medical procedures.

The seven chronic conditions used in the evaluation included:

-- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

-- Diabetes.

-- Heart attack.

-- Heart failure.

-- Kidney failure.

-- Pneumonia.

-- Stroke.

The 10 medical procedures included:

-- Abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.

-- Aortic valve surgery.

-- Back surgery (spinal fusion).

-- Colon cancer surgery.

-- Heart bypass surgery.

-- Hip fracture.

-- Hip replacement.

-- Knee replacement.

-- Lung cancer surgery.

-- Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).

In each procedure and condition in which a hospital had treated enough patients to be evaluated, the hospital received a rating of high performing, average or below average. The ratings are designed to help patients and health care consumers make informed decisions about where to receive care for specific medical needs.

More than 2,000 hospitals earned at least one top rating of "high performing." But only the 11 standouts listed below, less than 1% of the hospitals evaluated, got the top rating in all 17 procedures and conditions. Seven of these hospitals also made the Honor Roll of Best Hospitals.

-- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.

-- Cleveland Clinic.

-- Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, Newport Beach, California.

-- Houston Methodist Hospital.

-- Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

-- Mayo Clinic-Phoenix.

-- Scripps La Jolla Hospitals, La Jolla, California.

-- UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles.

-- UNC Rex Hospital, Raleigh, North Carolina.

-- University of Michigan Hospitals-Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor.

-- University of Wisconsin Hospitals, Madison.

Ben Harder oversees methodology and data analysis for U.S. News & World Report's portfolio of data-driven patient decision-support tools, including the Best Hospitals and Best Children's Hospitals rankings, Best Nursing Homes ratings, and searchable Find a Doctor directory. A frequent speaker on topics related to quality measurement and public reporting, Harder is a healthcare journalist whose work has appeared in BMJ, JAMA, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, National Geographic News, Science News, USA Today, the Washington Post and other publications. A Science News cover story he wrote about the use of maggots in medicine was anthologized in Best American Science Writing 2005. He is a graduate of Harvard University, where he served as the first Editor in Chief of Let's Go Publications, a publisher of travel guides. He completed a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation journalism fellowship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2002 and has been an editor at U.S. News since 2007. He tweets @benharder.