Hospital honor roll from US News & World Report: Boston hospitals among the nation’s best
Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women’s Hospital — the two Harvard Medical School teaching institutions that are also the co-founders of Partners HealthCare — both made the top 10 of the US News & World Report’s annual health care honor roll. Boston is the only city in the United States to have two hospitals ranked in the top 10.
From the Partners announcement:
Partners hospitals also scored well in the individual specialties rankings, rating among the top ten in 13 of the 16 fields. BWH ranked first in kidney disease for the second consecutive year, while also earning the top ranking in gynecology. MGH was ranked first in psychiatry for the thirteenth consecutive year, while McLean Hospital ranked fourth place in psychiatry, continuing to be the highest-ranking freestanding psychiatric hospital on the list. Spaulding placed seventh in rehabilitation, and was again the only New England rehabilitation hospital making the list. In addition, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, with which Partners formed Dana-Farber/Partners CancerCare, ranked fifth nationally in cancer, while the MGH Cancer Center ranked seventh.
MGH was among the top ten hospitals in the country in eleven specialties, including psychiatry, cancer, cardiology, endocrinology, digestive disorders, geriatrics, neurology/neurosurgery, kidney disease, orthopedics, respiratory disease, and rheumatology.
BWH ranked in the top ten hospitals in the country in five categories, including kidney disease, cardiology, endocrinology, gynecology, and rheumatology.
U.S. News analyzed data on 5,453 medical centers to produce this year’s rankings. Only 170 hospitals were ranked in one or more specialties and, of those, just 19 were of Honor Roll caliber.
You can read the entire US News report here.
