12 MD Hospitals Ranked Among Nation’s Best By U.S. News

MARYLAND — Twelve hospitals in Maryland are among the best in the country, according to new Best Hospitals rankings released Tuesday by U.S. News & World Report. One hospital in the state made the site's national honor roll, too.

The 34th edition of the rankings recognizes the top 484 regional hospitals, as well as the top 22 “honor roll” hospitals. Hospitals that made the ranking achieved excellence across a range of specialties, U.S. News said, which includes Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

Top 10 honor roll hospitals, according to the rankings, are:

• Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Saint Louis
• Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
• Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland
• Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia
• Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston
• Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
• Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
• Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
• Mount Sinai Hospital, New York

Johns Hopkins Hospital also made the 2022-2023 Best Hospitals rankings.

Top hospitals in Maryland for 2023-2024, in order of their ranking, are:

1. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
2. University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore
3. University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson
4. MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore
5. TidalHealth Peninsula Regional, Salisbury
6. Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore
7. Johns Hopkins Medicine-Suburban Hospital, Bethesda
8. Johns Hopkins Medicine-Howard County General Hospital, Columbia
9. Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center, Annapolis
10. Ascension St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore
11. MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital Center, Clinton
12. Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Towson

U.S. News evaluated more than 4,500 hospitals across 15 specialties and 21 procedures and conditions. Hospitals awarded a “best” designation excelled at factors such as clinical outcomes, quality of nursing care and patient experience.

This year, U.S. News said it placed more emphasis on objective quality measures and less on expert opinion. Other changes include the introduction of outpatient outcomes in key specialty and surgical rankings.

The rankings are meant to help patients and their doctors make health care decisions, according to Ben Harder, managing editor at U.S. News.

The top hospitals nationwide by specialty are:

Cancer

1. University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
2. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York
3. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
4. UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
5. Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center, Boston

Cardiology, heart and vascular surgery:

1. Cleveland Clinic
2. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
3. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
4. Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
5. NYU Langone Hospitals, New York

Neurology and neurosurgery

1. NYU Langone Hospitals, New York
2. UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
3. New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell
4. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
5. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles

Orthopedics

1. Hospital for Special Surgery, New York
2. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
3. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
4. NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital, New York
5. New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell