News: U.S. News & World Report names top hospitals of 2017-2018

For the second year in a row, the Mayo Clinic tops the U.S. News & World Report’s “Honor Roll” of the best hospitals of 2017-2018, HealthLeaders Media reported.

The Honor Roll consists of 20 hospitals that demonstrate the best care nationwide across multiple areas and specialties. Not surprisingly, other prestigious hospitals, such as the Cleveland Clinic, Massachusetts General, and Johns Hopkins, sit close on the Mayo Clinic’s heals on the list.

The rankings are based on a number of measures including risk-adjusted survival and readmission rates, volume, patient experience, patient safety, nursing quality, and other quality of care indicators. This year’s findings rely on five years of Medicare data covering more than 60 million hospitalizations, whereas previous years’ ranking only used three years’ worth of data.

While publically reported hospital rankings often get flack for their unreliability and subjective nature, healthcare industry leaders, clinicians, and potential patients nevertheless still take head of them. Because of this attention, U.S. News & World Report allows hospitals to post the rankings on their websites for a fee each year, according to HealthLeaders Media.

The 2017-2018 Best Hospitals Honor Roll top 10 rankings are as follows:

1. Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota
2. Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio
3. Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland
4. Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston
5. UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco
6. University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers in Ann Arbor
7. Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles
8. New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City
9. Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital in Stanford, California
10. Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian in Philadelphia

Editor’s note: To read HealthLeaders Media’s coverage of the U.S. News & World Report’s rankings, click here. To read the March/April edition of the CDI Journal focused on quality and publically reported data, click here.