Top 10 Best U.S. Hospitals, 2014-2015

U.S. News and World Report released its 2014-2015 lists of the top hospitals across the country. The best centers were ranked in 16 medical specialties, from cancer to urology, based on data for nearly 5,000 hospitals and results from surveys of nearly 10,000 physicians.

Rankings were based largely on objective data on hospital performance, including patient survival rates and resources (eg, nurse staffing).

Hospitals were also ranked by specialty. Those with very high scores in at least six specialties earned a spot on the Honor Roll. For the first time, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, claimed the No. 1 Honor Roll spot, barely edging out Massachusetts General Hospital. Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Here are the top 10 on the Honor Roll (view all 17, including points and the number of high-ranking specialties):

TOP 10 Honor Roll Hospitals

1 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

2 Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

3 Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore

4 Cleveland Clinic

5 UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles

6 New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell, New York

7 Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia

8 UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco

9 Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston

10 Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago

Source: U.S. News and World Report

Only 144 hospitals were ranked in a specialty. Here are just some of the top 3 hospitals by specialty:

Oncology

#1 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY

#2 University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX

#3 Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

Cardiology & Heart Surgery

#1 Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH

#2 Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

#3 New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell
New York, NY

Diabetes & Endocrinology

#1 Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

#2 Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH

#3 Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

Orthopedics

#1 Hospital for Special Surgery
New York, NY

#2 Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

#3 Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH

Psychiatry

#1 Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

#2 New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell
New York, NY

#3 Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD

Pulmonology