America's Best Hospitals: The Honor Roll
These medical centers all ranked high in at least six of the 17 Best Hospitals specialties, demonstrating unusual breadth of excellence. Their rank in the Honor Roll is based on a point system in which hospitals received 2 points for ranking at or near the top in a specialty and 1 point if slightly below that.
1 Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
32 points in 16 specialties
2 Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minn.
28 points in 14 specialties
3 UCLA Medical Center
Los Angeles
24 points in 14 specialties
4 Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston
24 points in 12 specialties
5 Cleveland Clinic
23 points in 12 specialties
6 Duke University Medical Center
Durham, N.C.
22 points in 13 specialties
7 University of California,
San Francisco Medical Center
21 points in 12 specialties
8 Barnes-Jewish Hospital
St. Louis
18 points in 12 specialties
9 University of Michigan Medical Center
Ann Arbor
16 points in 11 specialties
10 University of Washington Medical Center
Seattle
15 points in 10 specialties
11 New York-Presbyterian Hospital
15 points in 9 specialties
12 Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston
14 points in 8 specialties
13 Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
13 points in 9 specialties
14 University of Chicago Hospitals
10 points in 7 specialties
15 (tie) Stanford Hospital and Clinics
Stanford, Calif.
9 points in 7 specialties
15 (tie) University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
9 points in 7 specialties
17 Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville
8 points in 6 specialties
NOTE: 2 POINTS WERE AWARDED IF A HOSPITAL RANKED 3 OR MORE STANDARD DEVIATIONS (S.D.) ABOVE THE MEAN SCORE AND 1 POINT IF IT RANKED FROM JUST BELOW THE 3 S.D. THRESHOLD DOWN TO 2 S.D. ABOVE THE MEAN. WHERE POSSIBLE, TIES WERE BROKEN BY NUMBER OF SPECIALTIES.
This story appears in the July 28, 2003 print edition of U.S. News & World Report.