A St. Louis hospital recently ranked among best in the nation. Here’s where it excelled

A health care facility in St. Louis was recently ranked among the top 22 hospitals in the country by U.S. News and World Report.

Barnes-Jewish Hospital made the the publication’s Best Hospitals 2023 honor roll, which recognized the top 22 hospitals out of 4,515 health care facilities. Each was evaluated on “the full range of adult inpatient care.”

Metrics included performance in specialty categories, which the publication reports are “driven primarily by hard data” or by “expert opinion-based” rankings.

Here’s a list of the facilities that made the Best Hospitals Honor Roll 2023 to 2024:

• Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis

• Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston

• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles

• Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland

• Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia

• Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston

• Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore

• Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

• Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

• Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City

• New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, New York City

• North Shore University Hospital at Northwell Health, Manhasset, N.Y.

• Northwestern Medicine-Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago

• NYU Langone Hospitals, New York City

• Rush University Medical Center, Chicago

• Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Stanford, Calif.

• UC San Diego Health-La Jolla and Hillcrest Hospitals, San Diego

• UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles

• UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco

• University of Michigan Health-Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Mich.

• UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas

• Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville

This list is presented in alphabetical order. The honor roll is non-ordered.

While U.S. News and World Report lauded these hospitals for their high performance, the ranking advised patients they don’t necessarily need to refuse care from a non-ranked hospital.

“For most illnesses, patients do not need to go to an Honor Roll hospital, which may require traveling away from home and paying expenses for out-of-network care,” the report says. “All rankings and ratings should be seen as just a starting point for patients considering where to seek care with input from their doctors. Individual diagnosis, insurance coverage and priorities are important factors in making a personal best choice.”

Here’s what to know about Barnes-Jewish Hospital’s performance in the 2023 U.S. News and World Report rankings.

Barnes-Jewish Hospital rankings

In addition to the honor roll ranking, St. Louis’ Barnes-Jewish Hospital also received high marks in several other categories.

Here are the areas in which U.S. News and World Report ranked the hospital nationally:

• Ear, Nose & Throat: No. 10 in the U.S.

• Diabetes & Endocrinology: No. 15

• Neurology & Neurosurgery: No. 17

• Obstetrics and Gynecology: No. 21

• Cancer: No. 23

• Pulmonology & Lung Surgery: No. 23

• Geriatrics: No. 25

• Gastroenterology & GI Surgery: No. 29

• Urology: No. 34

• Cardiology, Heart & Vascular Surgery: No. 35

• Orthopedics: No. 37

More information about how rankings are determined and how other hospitals performed is available online from U.S. News and World Report.