The best hospitals in 2021, according to US News

U.S. News and World Report recently released its rankings of American hospitals by 15 different specialties and 17 procedures and conditions. U.S. News also released a list of the top hospitals overall—hospitals that ranked highly across multiple specialties and conditions.

To rank hospitals, U.S. News examined multiple factors, including clinical outcomes, staffing and patient satisfaction. More information about their methodology is available here.

Below is U.S. News’ list of the 20 overall top hospitals for 2021-2022 along with its top 20 hospitals for gynecology, orthopedics and rehabilitation and its top-ranked hospitals for psychiatry. U.S. News gave fewer hospitals numerical rankings for psychiatry—the 11 hospitals with numerical rankings are listed below.

Note that these lists were compiled using data that predates COVID-19. U.S. News reported that its future data gathering and analysis will likely take into account the impact of the pandemic on patients and hospital operations.

The 20 best overall hospitals

1. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
2. Cleveland Clinic
3. UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
4. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
5. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
6. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
7. New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, New York
8. NYU Langone Hospitals, New York
9. UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
10. Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
11. University of Michigan Hospitals-Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor
12. Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Stanford, California
13. Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia
14. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
15. Mayo Clinic-Phoenix
16. Houston Methodist Hospital
17 (tie). Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis
17 (tie). Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
19. Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
20. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville

The 20 best hospitals for gynecology

1. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
2. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York
3. Cleveland Clinic
4. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
5. University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
6. Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Virginia
7. University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital
8. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
9 (tie). Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
9 (tie). Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Stanford, California
11. New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, New York
12. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
13. University of Wisconsin Hospitals, Madison
14. Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis
15. Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, New York
16. NYU Langone Hospitals, New York
17. MUSC Health-University Medical Center, Charleston, South Carolina
18. Beaumont Hospital-Royal Oak, Michigan
19. Houston Methodist Hospital
20. Rush University Medical Center, Chicago

The 20 best hospitals for orthopedics

1. Hospital for Special Surgery, New York
2. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
3. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
4. NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital, New York
5. Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopedic Hospital, Santa Monica, California
6. Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
7. Cleveland Clinic
8. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
9. New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, New York
10. Rothman Institute at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Philadelphia
11. Scripps La Jolla Hospitals, La Jolla, California
12. Houston Methodist Hospital
13. Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Stanford, California
14. Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
15. University of Wisconsin Hospitals, Madison
16. UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
17. New England Baptist Hospital, Boston
18. Beaumont Hospital-Royal Oak, Michigan
19. Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
20. University of Michigan Hospitals-Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor

The 20 best hospitals for rehabilitation

1. Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (formerly Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago), Chicago
2. TIRR Memorial Hermann, Houston
3. Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts
4. Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, West Orange, New Jersey
5. University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle
6. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
7. Shepherd Center, Atlanta
8. Rusk Rehabilitation at NYU Langone Hospitals, New York
9. MossRehab, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
10. Craig Hospital, Englewood, Colorado
11. UPMC Mercy, Pittsburgh
12. New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, New York
13. Baylor Scott and White Institute for Rehabilitation-Dallas
14. Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
15. Carolinas Rehabilitation, Charlotte, North Carolina
16. Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, California
17. Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital, Grand Rapids, Michigan
18. UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
19. WakeMed Health and Hospitals-Raleigh Campus, North Carolina
20. MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, DC

The 11 best hospitals for psychiatry

1. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
2. McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts
3. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
4. New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, New York
5. Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA, Los Angeles
6. UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
7. Sheppard Pratt Hospital, Baltimore
8. Menninger Clinic, Houston
9. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
10. NYU Langone Hospitals, New York
11. Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut

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