News: U.S. News & World Report 2018-2019 hospital rankings released, Mayo tops list
For the third consecutive year, Mayo Clinic tops the Honor Roll of the U.S. News & World Report list of the nation’s top hospitals, HealthLeaders Media reported.
The Honor Role designation is awarded to 20 hospitals that, according to U.S. News & World Report, demonstrate high-level care in multiple areas. The remainder of this year’s list looks similar to previous years, albeit with a few exceptions where hospitals shuffled up or down a few rankings.
The rankings measures include risk-adjusted survival and readmissions rates, volume, patient experience, patient safety, nursing quality, and other quality of care indicators.
This year, U.S. News & World Report says their rankings emphasize patient experience and outcome measures. Additionally, for the first time, the procedures and conditions ratings used ICD-10 to achieve comparability in patient populations and outcomes, rather than ICD-9, according to HealthLeaders Media.
The 2018-2019 Best Hospitals Honor Roll top 10 rankings are as follows:
- Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota
- Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio
- Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
- University of Michigan Hospitals-Michigan (Ann Arbor) Medicine
- UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco, California
- UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles
- Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital in Stanford, California
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia (Cornell)
In addition to the hospitals listed on the Honor Roll, nearly 160 hospitals were nationally ranked in at least one specialty from among more than 4,500 hospitals that were evaluated, according to HealthLeaders Media.
Editor’s note: To read HealthLeaders Media’s coverage of this story, click here. To read about last year’s list, click here. To read the March/April 2017 edition of the CDI Journal focused on quality and publically reported data, click here.