Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston earned the top spot in the latest Best Hospitals ranking from U.S. News & World Report.
After finishing second in the last two rankings, Massachusetts General regained the top spot it won in 2012-2013. The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., finished second in this year’s Honor Roll after taking the top spot last year, while Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, and UCLA Medical Center tied for third and the Cleveland Clinic was fifth, U.S. News announced on July 21.
For 2015-2016, there were 15 hospitals in the Honor Roll, which is reserved for those institutions that finish at or near the top in 6 or more of the 16 specialties included in the U.S. News rankings. This year, only 137 hospitals did well enough to be nationally ranked in one or more specialties. Both of those numbers are down from a year ago, when there were 17 hospitals in the Honor Roll and 144 that were ranked nationally in at least one specialty.
The 16 specialties used in the analysis are cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes and endocrinology, otolaryngology, gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery, geriatrics, gynecology, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, ophthalmology, orthopedics, psychiatry, pulmonology, rehabilitation, rheumatology, and urology.
This years’ ranking process initially included 4,716 nonfederal community hospitals. The research organization RTI International conducted the physician survey and produced the Best Hospitals methodology and national rankings under contract with U.S. News.
