Children's Hospitals Ranked in New York and the US

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By Marc Torrence and Lanning Taliaferro, Patch Staff

U.S. News & World Report released a list of the best children's hospitals in the country Tuesday, and Boston Children's Hospital took the top spot.

Maria Fareri Children's Hospital in Valhalla was nationally ranked in one specialty -- Pediatric Pulmonology -- where it was listed 44th in the country.

The children's hospital is part of Westchester Medical Center and serves the lower Hudson Valley.

U.S. News & World Report — which publishes some of the most respected rankings on schools, hospitals, jobs and more — used data from a clinical survey of 183 hospitals along with a survey of pediatric specialists and sub-specialists. It then ranked the hospitals across 10 specialties — such as cancer and orthopedics — based on these three factors, weighted equally:

• "Clinical outcomes," such as cancer survival and infection rates
• "Efficient coordination of care," or how well the hospital complies with industry best practices
• "Sufficient care-related resources," such as having adequate staff and programs for certain conditions

Maria Fareri Children's Hospital had a score of 50.6 out of 100 in Pediatric Pulmonology. It scored above average, very high or excellent in 17 categories. In only one category -- Ability to prevent ICU infections -- did it score "below average."

To make the magazine's "honor roll," a hospital had to rank in the top 10 percent in at least three specialties. Then, hospitals were assigned a points score — two points for ranking in the top 5 percentile of a specialty and one point for ranking in the next 5 percentile — to come up with the overall ranking.

Here are the top 10 overall on the honor roll for the nation’s children’s hospitals:
1. Boston Children's Hospital (20 points, 10 specialties)

2. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (19 points, 10 specialties)

3. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (15 points, 8 specialties)

4. Texas Children's Hospital, Houston (12 points, 7 specialties)

5. Seattle Children's Hospital (6 points, 5 specialties)

6. Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago (5 points, 4 specialties)

7. (tie) Children's Hospital Los Angeles (4 points, 4 specialties)

7. (tie) Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC (4 points, 4 specialties)

9. Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora (4 points, 3 specialties)

10. (tie) Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, Palo Alto, Calif. (3 points, 3 specialties)

10. (tie) Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio (3 points, 3 specialties)

Explore the full children's hospital rankings, including by specialty, here.

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