A place on the Best Hospitals Honor Roll is reserved for medical centers that demonstrate unusually high expertise across multiple specialties, scoring at or near the top in at least six of 16 specialties. Just 17 of the nearly 5,000 hospitals evaluated for the 2011-12 rankings qualified. Hospitals with the highest scores in a given specialty received 2 Honor Roll points; those with slightly lower scores received 1 point.* Honor Roll standing was determined by the total number of Honor Roll points across all 16 specialties.
| Rank |
Hospital |
Points |
Specialties |
| 1 |
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore |
30 |
15 |
| 2 |
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston |
29 |
15 |
| 3 |
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. |
28 |
15 |
| 4 |
Cleveland Clinic |
26 |
13 |
| 5 |
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles |
25 |
14 |
| 6 |
New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell, N.Y. |
22 |
12 |
| 7 |
UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco |
20 |
11 |
| 8 |
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston |
18 |
12 |
| 9 |
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. |
18 |
10 |
| 10 |
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia |
17 |
12 |
| 11 |
Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis |
16 |
11 |
| 12 |
UPMC-University of Pittsburgh Medical Center |
14 |
8 |
| 13 |
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle |
13 |
9 |
| 14 |
University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, Ann Arbor |
10 |
6 |
| 14 |
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville |
10 |
6 |
| 16 |
Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York |
8 |
6 |
| 17 |
Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, Calif. |
7 |
6 |
* 2 points for scores 4 or more standard deviations above the mean, 1 point for scores from 3 to 4 standard deviations above the mean.
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