U.S. News Lists Hospital Rankings

U.S. News and World Report this week ranked 168 hospitals as the "best" in country. Of those, 16 facilities made the magazine's "honor roll," meaning the facilities "demonstrat[ed] unusual excellence" in at least six fields. The 16 "honor roll" hospitals are:

• 1. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, ranked in 16 specialties
  
• 2. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., ranked in 14 specialties
  
• 3. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, ranked in 14 specialties
  
• 4. Cleveland Clinic, ranked in 12 specialties
  
• 5. UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, ranked in 14 specialties
  
• 6. Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C., ranked in 12 specialties
  
• 7. Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, ranked in 12 specialties
  
• 8. University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, ranked in 12 specialties
  
• 9.
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• 10. Stanford University Hospital, Stanford, Calif., ranked in 11 specialties
  
• 11. Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, ranked in 10 specialties
  
• 12. University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, ranked in eight specialties
  
• 13. New York Presbyterian Hospital, ranked in seven specialties
  
• 14. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, ranked in eight specialties
  
• 15. University of Chicago Hospitals, ranked in eight specialties
  
• 16. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, ranked in seven specialties.