Twenty-two hospitals were named to U.S. News & World Report's 2023-24 Best Hospitals Honor Roll.
The Honor Roll, released Aug. 1, is part of the publication's Best Hospitals rankings and ratings, which examine hospitals in more than 30 medical and surgical services.
U.S. News said it made multiple "refinements" to its latest rankings and ratings, including the introduction of outpatient outcomes in key specialty rankings and surgical ratings. These refinements also include expanded inclusion of other outpatient data, an increased weight on objective quality measures and a reduced weight on expert opinion, and more.
Hospital profiles on the U.S. News website feature refined health equity measures, including a new measure of racial disparities in outcomes, the publication said. The 2023-24 rankings highlight 484 Best Regional Hospitals. Of those, 22 hospitals are named to the national Honor Roll "for demonstrating exceptional breadth of excellence across clinical specialties," according to U.S. News.
In July, the publication announced it would no longer attribute ordinal rankings to its Honor Roll hospitals. The announcement came after some health systems, such as Bethlehem, Pa.-based St. Luke's University Health Network and Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine's University of Pennsylvania Health System, said they would pull away from the U.S. News rankings.
Here are the 22 hospitals named to U.S. News' 2023-24 Best Hospitals Honor Roll:
Barnes-Jewish Hospital (St. Louis)
Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston)
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles)
Cleveland Clinic
Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian (Philadelphia)
Houston Methodist Hospital
Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore)
Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston)
Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.)
Mount Sinai Hospital (New York City)
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell (New York City)
North Shore University Hospital at Northwell Health (Manhasset, N.Y.)
Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago)
NYU Langone Hospitals (New York City)
Rush University Medical Center (Chicago)
Stanford Health Care-Stanford (Calif.) Hospital
UC San Diego Health-LaJolla and Hillcrest Hospitals
UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles)
UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco)
University of Michigan Health-Ann Arbor
UT Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas)
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, Tenn.)
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