Akron Children's Hospital Rated Among Best in U.S.

Akron Children’s Hospital is rated in four pediatric specialties in U.S. News Media Group’s Best Children’s Hospitals rankings, now available on-line at www.usnews.com/childrenshospitals.

The hopital  ranked 31^st in the country in pediatric orthopedics, 40^th in pediatric pulmonology, 42^nd in pediatric nephrology and 48^th in neonatology.

“We salute Akron Children’s Hospital,” said Health Rankings Editor Avery Comarow. “The goal of the Best Children's Hospitals rankings is to call attention to pediatric centers with the expertise to help the sickest kids, and Akron Children’s is one of those centers.”

The new rankings recognize the top 50 children’s hospitals in 10 specialties: cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology, neonatology, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology, and urology. Seventy-six hospitals are ranked in at least one specialty. 

Akron Children’s Hospital executive vice president Shawn Lyden said the rankings confirm what Northeast Ohio parents and physicians already know about the quality of the care at Akron Children’s.

“We have made great strides in quality and outcome measures,” said Lyden, “and much of that comes from our willingness to share data and collaborate with Ohio’s seven other children’s hospitals, as well as children’s hospitals across the country.”

Akron Children's has 86 locations throughout the state, including an emergency room in Bath operated in partnership with Akron General at the Akron General’s Health & Wellness Center. 

For the full rankings visit www.usnews.com/childrenshospitals.