Michigan's Best Hospital Also One Of America's Best: 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, and University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers in Ann Arbor ranked 18th in 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. Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, topped the list.

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

1. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

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, CA

15. Mount Sinai Hospital, New York

16. Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC

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

Here are the top 20 hospitals in Michigan:

1. University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, Ann Arbor

2. Beaumont Hospital – Royal Oak

3. Harper University Hospital, Detroit

4. Spectrum Health Hospitals Butterworth-Blodgett Campuses, Grand Rapids

5. Munson Medical Center, Traverse City

6. Beaumont Hospital – Troy

7. Mercy Health St. Mary's Hospital, Grand Rapids

8. Bronson Methodist Hospital, Kalamazoo; Genesys Regional Medical Center, Grand Blanc; McLaren Northern Michigan Hospital, Petoskey

11. St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor Hospital, Ypsilanti

12. Beaumont Hospital – Dearborn; Providence Hospital, Southfield; Sparrow Hospital, Lansing

15. Beaumont Hospital – Grosse Pointe; Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit; Henry Ford Macomb Hospital, Clinton Township; St. John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit

19. Borgess Medical Center, Kalamazoo; Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital, Commerce Township; McLaren Greater Lansing Hospital, Lansing; St. Joseph Mercy Oakland, Pontiac

23. Covenant Medical Center, Saginaw; Lakeland Regional Medical Center, St. Joseph; McLaren Regional Medical Center, Flint

Click here to see the full Michigan rankings.
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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.

VA and military hospitals were not included, the publication said, because the federal government is reluctant to release performance data in those hospitals.
Procedures and conditions that were considered included hip replacement and heart failure.

Hospitals were also ranked according to these 16 specialties:

• Cancer
• Cardiology and heart surgery
• Diabetes and endocrinology
• Ear, nose and throat
• Gastroenterology and GI surgery
• Geriatrics
• Gynecology
• Nephrology
• Neurology and neurosurgery
• Orthopedics
• Pulmonology
• Urology
• Ophthalmology
• Psychiatry
• Rehabilitation
• Rheumatology

View U.S. News and World Report's methodology here.

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