2 PA Children's Hospitals Ranked Among Best In Country

By Marc Torrence and Kara Seymour:

U.S. News and World Report released a list of the best children's hospitals in the country Tuesday, and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was ranked second nationwide.

Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC tied for seventh place.

The magazine — 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 subspecialists. It then ranked the hospitals across 10 specialties — such 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

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 were the top 10 overall on the honor roll:

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.