See The Best Hospitals In MA: New U.S. News Ranking

MASSACHUSETTS — Eleven hospitals in Massachusetts are among the best in the country, according to new Best Hospitals rankings released Tuesday by U.S. News & World Report.

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.

Two hospitals from Massachusetts made the "honor roll" alongside institutions like Johns Hopkins, the Cleveland Clinic and the Mayo Clinic: Mass General and Brigham and Women's, both in Boston.

These are the 10 best in Massachusetts, according to U.S. News:

1) Massachusetts General Hospital (tie)
1) Brigham and Women's Hospital (tie)
3) Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
4) UMass Memorial Medical Center
5) Tufts Medical Center
6) Lahey Hospital and Medical Center
7) Baystate Medical Center
8) Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital (tie)
8) Newton-Wellesley Hospital (tie)
10) Salem Hospital (tie)
10) Winchester Hospital (tie)

Brigham and Women's also ranked No. 1 in the nation for its obstetrics and gynecology services, and Mass General ranked No. 2 in the nation for psychiatry.

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