News: U.S. News & World Report Best Children’s Hospitals rankings released

The U.S. News & World Report released its annual Best Children’s Hospitals rankings for 2021-2022. For the ranking, U.S. News gathered clinical survey data from 193 medical centers and ranked the top 50 centers across specialties. The 10 hospitals that ranked the highest across all specialties for the 2021-2022 year are:

1. Boston Children’s Hospital
2. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
3. Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston
4. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
5. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
6. Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora
7. Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C.
8. Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio
9. UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
10. Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford in Palo Alto, California

The organization also released a list of top children’s hospitals by specialty, which can be found here.

Editor’s note: The U.S. News & World Report rankings can be found here. Interested in learning how CDI professionals can help pediatric hospitals improve their quality rankings? Check out ACDIS’ book, Pediatric CDI: Building Blocks for Success.