U.S. News & World Report released its 2020-21 best hospitals rankings for cardiology and heart surgery last week.
The publication evaluated 594 hospitals that provide cardiology services. Hospitals had to treat at least 1,817 Medicare inpatients in 2016, 2017 and 2018 in order to be eligible for its ranking. For more on the methodology, click here.
Here are the hospitals that received the highest scores for cardiology and heart surgery in each U.S. state and the District of Columbia, excluding Wyoming. Hospitals in Wyoming did not make the U.S. News & World Report cardiology rankings.
Alabama
University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital
Alaska
Providence Alaska Medical Center (Anchorage)
Arizona
Mayo Clinic (Phoenix)
Arkansas
CHI St. Vincent Infirmary (Little Rock)
California
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles)
Colorado
UCHealth University of Colorado Health (Aurora)
Connecticut
Yale New Haven Hospital
Delaware
ChristianaCare's Christiana Hospital (Newark)
District of Columbia
MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute at MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Florida
Tampa General Hospital
Georgia
Emory University Hospital (Atlanta)
Hawaii
Queen's Medical Center (Honolulu)
Idaho
St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center (Boise)
Illinois
Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago)
Indiana
Indiana University Health Medical Center (Indianapolis)
Iowa
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (Iowa City)
Kansas
University of Kansas Hospital (Kansas City)
Kentucky
University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital (Lexington)
Louisiana
Ochsner Medical Center (New Orleans)
Maine
Maine Medical Center (Portland)
Maryland
Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore)
Massachusetts
Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston)
Michigan
University of Michigan Hospitals-Michigan Medicine (Ann Arbor)
Minnesota
Mayo Clinic (Rochester)
Mississippi
Mississippi Baptist Medical Center (Jackson)
Missouri
St. Luke's Hospital of Kansas City
Montana
Billings Clinic
Nebraska
Nebraska Medicine-Nebraska Medical Center (Omaha)
Nevada
St. Mary's Regional Medical Center-Reno
New Hampshire
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon)
New Jersey
Morristown Medical Center
New Mexico
Lovelace Medical Center (Albuquerque)
New York
New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell (New York City)
North Carolina
Duke University Hospital (Durham)
North Dakota
Sanford Medical Center Bismarck
Ohio
Cleveland Clinic
Oklahoma
Hillcrest Medical Center (Tulsa)
Oregon
OHSU Hospital-Knight Cardiovascular Institute (Portland)
Pennsylvania
Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian (Philadelphia)
Rhode Island
Rhode Island Hospital (Providence)
South Carolina
MUSC Health-University Medical Center (Charleston)
South Dakota
Sanford USD Medical Center (Sioux Falls)
Tennessee
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville)
Texas
Houston Methodist Hospital
Utah
Intermountain Medical Center (Murray)
Vermont
University of Vermont Medical Center (Burlington)
Virginia
VCU Medical Center (Richmond)
Washington
University of Washington Medical Center (Seattle)
West Virginia
West Virginia University Hospitals (Morgantown)
Wisconsin
Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center (Milwaukee)
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