LIST: Calif. Children's Hospitals Ranked Among Best in U.S. For 2017

U.S. News and World Report released its annual rankings of the best children’s hospitals in the country, highlighting hospitals across 10 pediatric specialties. The rankings also looked at the best children’s hospitals by state and identified 10 hospitals that made it onto the honor roll, which are hospitals that deliver high quality care across many specialties.

In California, hospitals landed on every list that was assembled by the agency. Appearing across all but one of the 10 categories of specialties, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles stood out among the best of the best. In fact, it was the only California hospital to be named to the "honor roll" assembled by U.S. News and World Report.

Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego landed on six of the lists, while Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals both landed on five.

The ten pediatric specialties, along with the California hospitals that were ranked in the top for each category, are highlighted in the rankings below:

1. Cancer
   • Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, ranked no. 9 nationally
   • UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals, San Francisco and Oakland, San Francisco, ranked no. 14 nationally
   • Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, Palo Alto, ranked no. 17 nationally
2. Cardiology and Heart Surgery
   • Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, ranked no. 8 nationally
   • Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, Palo Alto, ranked no. 15 nationally
   • Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, ranked no. 17 nationally
3. Diabetes and Endocrinology
   • Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, ranked no. 5 nationally
   • UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals, San Francisco and Oakland, San Francisco, ranked no. 10 nationally
   • Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, ranked no. 15 nationally
4. Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Surgery
   • Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, no. 7 nationally
   • UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals, San Francisco and Oakland, San Francisco, no. 17 nationally
   • Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, Palo Alto, no. 26 nationally
5. Neonatology
   • Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, no. 5 nationally
   • Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, ranked no. 6 nationally
   • UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals, San Francisco and Oakland, San Francisco, ranked no. 10 nationally
6. Nephrology
   • Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, Palo Alto, ranked no. 8 nationally
   • UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, ranked no. 12 nationally
   • UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals, San Francisco and Oakland, San Francisco, ranked no. 14 nationally
7. Orthopedics
   • Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, ranked no. 3 nationally
   • Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, ranked no. 6 nationally
   • UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, ranked no. 15 nationally
8. Pulmonology
   • Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, Palo Alto, ranked no. 11 nationally
   • Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, ranked no. 18 nationally
   • Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, ranked no. 26 nationally
9. Urology
   • Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, ranked no. 16 nationally
   • Children's Hospital of Orange County, Orange, ranked no. 18 nationally
   • Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, ranked no. 22 nationally

>>>>Click here to see the top hospitals across every speciality.

The hospitals that made U.S. News’ honor roll are:

1. Boston Children’s Hospital
2. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
3. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
4. Texas Children’s Hospital
5. Johns Hopkins Children’s Center
6. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
7. Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
7. Nationwide Children’s Hospital
9. Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
10. Children’s National Medical Center

U.S. News’ methodology includes measures such as clinical outcomes, patient volume, infection control and more. For all 10 categories, except cardiology and heart surgery, a third of the hospital’s score was tied to outcomes such as survival, infections and surgical complications.

For cardiology and heart surgery, outcomes account for 38.3 percent of the score. More than 50 percent of the score was based on metrics for each hospital’s commitment to patient safety and the remainder of the score rested on a survey of pediatricians in the various specialties.

For the 2017-18 rankings, 113 hospitals turned over enough data to U.S. News to be evaluated in at least one specialty and 82 of those hospitals were ranked in one or more. Only the 50 top scoring hospitals across each specialty are ranked numerically.

– With Additional Reporting By Feroze Dhanoa (Patch National Staff)

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