Top 10 Hospitals In Oregon: US News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report released its annual rankings of the best hospitals in the country for 2017-18, ranking more than 4,500 medical centers in the U.S. in 25 specialties, procedures and conditions. The rankings also looked at the best hospitals in every state and 20 hospitals made it to the honor roll, a distinction given to hospitals that deliver exceptional treatment across multiple specialties.

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, topped the honor roll for the second consecutive year. The hospital was ranked across 15 specialties and ranked in the top five for 13 of the specialties. Cleveland Clinic was ranked number two and Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore climbed up the rankings one spot this year to number three on the honor roll.

U.S. News ranked 152 hospitals nationally in at least one specialty and 535 hospitals were recognized as best regional hospitals for those seeking care close to home.

Out of nearly 70 hospitals in Oregon, Oregon Health & Science University ranked number one in the Beaver State and Portland metro region; it ranked nationally across 13 specialties (seven adult, six children) and was recognized as high performing in nine procedures/conditions. It was followed in national rankings by only one other Oregon hospital: Providence Portland Medical Center, which tied with Providence St. Vincent Medical Center for second best hospital in the state (Providence St. Vincent did not rank nationally, however).

Nationally, OHSU's specialty rankings are as follows:

• 26th in cancer care;
• 42nd in cardiology and heart surgery;
• 20th in diabetes care and endocrinology;
• 18th in ear, nose, and throat care;
• 30th in geriatrics;
• 22nd in nephrology; and
• 45th in neurology and neurosurgery.

OHSU's Doernbecher Children's Hospital also ranked nationally in the following specialties:

• 36th in neonatology;
• 47th in pediatric cancer care;
• 40th in pediatric diabetes care and endocrinology;
• 25th in pediatric nephrology;
• 41st in pediatric neurology and neurosurgery; and
• 50th in pediatric pulmonology.

The top 10 hospitals in Oregon are:

1. OHSU in Portland
2. Providence Portland Medical Center in Portland
2. Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland
4. Salem Hospital in Salem
5. Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford
6. Kaiser Permanente Sunnyside Medical Center in Clackamas
7. PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Springfield
7. St. Charles Medical Center in Bend
9. Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center in Portland
10. Adventist Medical Center-Portland

The methodology used by U.S. News is based largely on objective measures with more than 70 percent of the rankings relying on such data. The rankings also took into account survey answers from more than 125,000 physicians across the country about reputation. U.S. News also looked at five years of Medicare data and the number of patients treated in hospitals. The methodology was also updated to avoid penalizing hospitals for treating low-income patients or for accepting high-risk cases transferred from other hospitals. For the best regional hospitals, procedures and conditions rankings were emphasized more than specialty rankings.

The hospitals on U.S. News' honor roll are:

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
University of Michigan Hospital and Health Centers, Ann Arbor
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
New-York Presbyterian Hospital, New York
Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Stanford, California
Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, Pittsburgh
University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora
Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Philadelphia
Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
NYU Langone Medical Center, New York
Mayo Clinic Phoenix, Phoenix

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

Written by Feroze Dhanoa, breaking news editor at Patch, with additional reporting by Travis Loose, editor for Patch Oregon.

Photo Courtesy: U.S. News & World Report, care of Oregon Health & Science University