Best in care America’s best hospitals in 2019, according to U.S. News U.S. News & World Report rated the 21 best hospitals for 2019-20. July 30, 2019Tuesday The DO Staff Contact The DO Staff Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email After ranking the nation’s hospitals in 16 different specialties and for nine conditions and procedures, U.S. News & World Report released their list of the best hospitals for 2019-20. To create the overall best hospitals list, U.S. News assigned hospitals points for each specialty, condition or procedure they ranked for; many hospitals ranked for multiple specialties and conditions. The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota was recognized with the No. 1 spot on the best hospitals list, a position it held in 2018 as well. To help patients find hospitals closer to home, U.S. News also ranked hospitals regionally, providing lists by state, city and region. U.S. News included 569 hospitals, or about 1 in 10 of the nation’s hospitals, in its regional rankings. Visit U.S. News to read more about its ranking methodology. U.S. News & World Report’s top 20 hospitals for 2019-2020 1. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 2. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 3. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore 4. Cleveland Clinic 5. New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, New York 6. UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles 7. UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco 8. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles 9. NYU Langone Hospitals, New York 10. Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago 11. University of Michigan Hospitals-Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor 12. Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Stanford, California 13. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston 14. Mount Sinai Hospital, New York 15. UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, Pittsburgh 16. Keck Hospital of USC, Los Angeles 17. University of Wisconsin Hospitals, Madison 18. (tie) Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia 18. (tie) Mayo Clinic-Phoenix 20. (tie) Houston Methodist Hospital 20. (tie) Yale New Haven Hospital, Connecticut Related reading: Best hospitals in America as chosen by doctors Best and worst states for doctors in 2019: Where docs can thrive, according to Medscape More in Profession In Memoriam: May 2025 View the names of recently deceased osteopathic physicians. The Wagner way: How osteopathic medicine became a tradition in this family After becoming the first physician in his family, Walter Peter Wagner, DO, had 10 children, and seven of them became DOs. Previous articleFamily physician and combat veteran to serve as AOA president-elect Next articleProposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule addresses DOs' concerns
The Wagner way: How osteopathic medicine became a tradition in this family After becoming the first physician in his family, Walter Peter Wagner, DO, had 10 children, and seven of them became DOs.