The best hospitals in 2020, according to US News

U.S. News and World Report recently released its rankings of American hospitals by 16 different specialties and 10 procedures and conditions. U.S. News also released a list of the best 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 best hospitals in 2020 along with its top 20 hospitals for gynecology and orthopedics and its top-ranked hospitals for psychiatry and rehabilitation. U.S. News gave fewer hospitals numerical rankings for these specialties—11 and 12, respectively, listed below.

The 20 best overall hospitals

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

The 20 best hospitals for gynecology

1. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
2. Cleveland Clinic
3. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York
4. New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, New York
5. Beaumont Hospital-Royal Oak, Michigan
6. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
7. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
8. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
9. Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Virginia
10. Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, New York
11. Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Stanford, California
12. University of Chicago Medical Center
13. Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
14. University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
15. University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital
16. UCI Medical Center, Orange, California
17. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
18 (tie). Northside Hospital-Atlanta
18 (tie). University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill
20. Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia

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. Rush University Medical Center
6. New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, New York
7. Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopedic Hospital, Santa Monica, California
8. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
9. Cleveland Clinic
10. Scripps La Jolla Hospitals, La Jolla, California
11. Beaumont Hospital-Royal Oak, Michigan
12. Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Stanford, California
13. Houston Methodist Hospital
14. NYU Winthrop Hospital, Mineola, New York
15 (tie). Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
15 (tie). UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
17. Rothman Institute at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Philadelphia
18. New England Baptist Hospital, Boston
19 (tie). Tampa General Hospital
19 (tie). UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, Pittsburgh

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 (tie). Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
5 (tie). Sheppard Pratt Hospital, Baltimore
7. Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA, Los Angeles
8. UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
9. Menninger Clinic, Houston
10. Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut
11. NYU Langone Hospitals, New York

The 12 best hospitals for rehabilitation

1. Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (formerly Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago), Chicago
2. Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts
3. TIRR Memorial Hermann, Houston
4. Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, West Orange, New Jersey
5. University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle
6. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
7. Rusk Rehabilitation at NYU Langone Hospitals, New York
8 (tie). Craig Hospital, Englewood, Colorado
8 (tie). Shepherd Center, Atlanta
10. New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, New York
11. MossRehab, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
12. Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio

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