Best Hospitals In Ohio: New U.S. News Rankings

CLEVELAND, OH — U.S. News & World Report has released its rankings of the best hospitals in America for 2018-19, evaluating more than 4,500 hospitals in the country across 16 specialties and nine procedures and conditions. The Cleveland Clinic was again rated as the No. 2 hospital in the nation, and the No. 1 hospital in Ohio.

The Cleveland Clinic was once again beaten out by familiar foe, the Mayo Clinic. Northeast Ohio's prized hospital system was ranked nationally in 14 adult specialties and 10 pediatric specialties. It was also ranked as "high performing" in one adult specialty.

Compare that to Minnesota's Mayo Clinic, which was ranked in 15 specialties and rated as “high performing” in one specialty. U.S News explains that a “high performing” rating means a hospital was not nationally ranked but was significantly better than average in a specialty.

In all, 158 hospitals in the country ranked nationally in at least one specialty and more than 1,100 hospitals were rated as high performing in at least one common procedure or condition, according to U.S. News. A total of 29 hospitals were rated as “high performing” in all nine procedures and conditions. Hospitals were not ranked numerically for procedures and conditions.

Of Ohio's 215 hospitals, 21 meet U.S. News' standards for ranking. The aforementioned Cleveland Clinic was rated as the best hospital in the Buckeye State; University Hospitals was the No. 2 hospital system in Ohio, with national rankings in 10 adult specialties and eight children's specialties. Only eight Ohio hospitals landed on the publication's national rankings for specialties: Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Miami Valley Hospital, Cleveland Clinic Akron General, the Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital, OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital and University of Cincinnati Medical Center.

According to the rankings, here are the best hospitals in Ohio:

• Cleveland Clinic (1)
• University Hospitals (2)
• Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (3)
• Miami Valley Hospital (4)
• Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital (5)
• Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest Hospital (6)
• Christ Hospital (7)
• OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital (8)
• ProMedica Toledo Hospital (9)
• University of Cincinnati Medical Center (10)
• Cleveland Clinic Akron General (11)
• Good Samaritan Hospital (11)
• Aultman Hospital (13)
• Cleveland Clinic South Pointe Hospital (13)
• Bethesda North Hospital (15)
• Kettering Medical Center (15)
• Mount Carmel East and West Hospitals (15)
• MetroHealth Medical Center (18)
• Summa Health-Akron Campus (18)
• OhioHealth Grant Medical Center (20)
• Southwest General Hospital (20)

The hospitals that made the 2018-19 national honor roll are:

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

You can see the full rankings here.

U.S. News uses two methodologies, one for procedures and conditions ratings and another for specialty rankings. The rankings are produced by U.S. News with research organization, RTI International. U.S. News says its methodologies in most areas of care are based largely or entirely on objective measures like risk-adjusted survival and readmission rates, volume, patient experience, patient safety and quality of nursing. (You can read more about the methodology here. )

The specialties included in the rankings are:

• Cancer
• Cardiology and Heart Surgery
• Diabetes and Endocrinology
• Ear, Nose and Throat
• Gastroenterology and GI Surgery
• Geriatrics
• Gynecology
• Nephrology
• Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Ophthalmology
• Orthopedics
• Pulmonology
• Psychiatry
• Rehabilitation
• Rheumatology
• Urology

The procedures and conditions included in the rankings are:

• COPD
• Heart Bypass Surgery
• Heart Failure
• Hip Replacement
• Knee Replacement
• Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
• Aortic Valve Surgery
• Colon Cancer Surgery
• Lung Cancer Surgery

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