Best Hospitals In Connecticut, United States: U.S. News and World Report's New Rankings

U.S. News and World Report on Tuesday released its list of the best hospitals in the country. The Mayo Clinic in Minnesota topped the publication's rankings, which looked at how each hospital performs across different specialties, procedures and conditions.

Hospitals that scored high in those categories were compiled into a top-line ranking called the "Honor Roll," made up of the top 20 hospitals in the country.

Here are those top 20 hospitals, according to U.S. News and World Report:

1. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
2. Cleveland Clinic
3. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
4. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
5. UCLA Medical Center
6. New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell
7. UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
8. Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
9. Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia
10. NYU Langone Medical Center
11. Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis
12. UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, Pittsburgh
13. Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
14. Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Stanford, Calif.
15. Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
16. Duke University Hospital, Durham, N.C.
17. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
18. University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, Ann Arbor
19. Houston Methodist Hospital
20. University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora

Click here to see the full rankings.

In Connecticut, none of the 50 hospitals in the state made the top 20 national list but four hospitals did meet high U.S. News standards and are ranked.

Here they are:

1.Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven
2. Hartford Hospital in Hartford
3. St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford
4. Middlesex Hospital in Middletown

Yale is nationally ranked in 11 adult specialties and six pediatric specialities. No other CT hospital is nationally ranked in specialty areas but numerous hospitals did earn high performance marks for various procedures.

Here is that list:

Hartford Hospital received High Performing in 7 procedures.

St. Francis Hospital received High Performing 5 procedures.

Middlesex Hospital received High Performing in 4 procedures.

Danbury Hospital received High Performing in 3 procedures.

CT Hospitals receiving High Performing in 2 procedures include: Bridgeport, Charlotte Hungerford, Greenwich, Griffin, Hospital of Central Connecticut, MidState Medical Center, William W. Backus, St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Norwalk, Stamford, and St. Mary’s.

CT Hospitals receiving High Performing in 1 procedure include: Milford, UConn Health-John Dempsey, Waterbury, Lawrence and Memorial, and Manchester Memorial.

To view the specific CT Hospital list click here.

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To compile the rankings, U.S. News and World Report used several different objective measurements such as patient survival, number of patients and staffing numbers. The publication also used survey data from qualified physicians, who were asked to name the top five hospitals in their specialty.

In all, 153 hospitals made the rankings in at least one specialty.

See the hospital specialty rankings here.