The nation’s best children’s hospitals, according to U.S. News & World Report

A child facing a life-threatening or rare condition requires a level of expertise that a typical hospital can’t necessarily provide, notes U.S. News & World Report in its methodology report for its Best Children’s Hospitals rankings for 2019-2020.

U.S. News ranked hospitals for 10 different pediatric specialties and also provided a list of 10 hospitals that provide excellent pediatric care across multiple specialties. To put the rankings together, U.S. News weighed outcome, hospital reputation among experts, patient safety and family centeredness.

Below are U.S. News’ overall top 10 children’s hospitals and its lists of the top three hospitals for 10 different pediatric specialties.

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The top 10 children’s hospitals in the U.S.

1. Boston Children’s Hospital
2. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
3. (tie) Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
3. (tie) Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston
5. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
6. Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
7. Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio
8. UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
9. Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore
10. Seattle Children’s Hospital

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The top hospitals for pediatric cancer

1. Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
2. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee
3. Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston

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The top hospitals for pediatric cardiology and heart surgery

1. Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston
2. Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
3. UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

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The top hospitals for pediatric diabetes and endocrinology

1. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
2. Boston Children’s Hospital
3. Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital in Connecticut

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The top hospitals for pediatric gastroenterology

1. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
2. Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston
3. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

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The top hospitals for neotatology

1. Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
2. Boston Children’s Hospital
3. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

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The top hospitals for pediatric nephrology

1. Boston Children’s Hospital
2. Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston
3. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

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The top hospitals for pediatric neurology & neurosurgery

1. Boston Children’s Hospital
2. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
3. Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston

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The top hospitals for pediatric orthopedics

1. Boston Children’s Hospital
2. Children’s Medical Center Dallas-Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children
3. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

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The top hospitals for pediatric pulmonology & lung surgery

1. Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston
2. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
3. Boston Children’s Hospital

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The top hospitals for pediatric urology

1. Boston Children’s Hospital
2. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
3. Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health in Indianapolis, Indiana

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To learn more, see the full rankings at U.S. News & World Report.

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America’s best hospitals, as ranked by U.S. News

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