St. Mary Medical Center Among Top PA Hospitals: U.S. News and World Report

U.S. News and World Report on Tuesday released its list of the best hospitals across the country and St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne made the list of top hospitals in Pennsylvania.

St. Mary Medical Center tied for 23rd place out of the 27 hospitals in Pennsylvania ranked by the publication.

The top-ranking hospital in Pennsylvania was Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, in Philadelphia, which came in ninth nationwide.

The local hospital tied with Excela Westmoreland Hospital in Greensburg, Holy Spirit Hospital in Camp Hill and St. Vincent Hospital in Erie.

The rankings looked at how each hospital performs across different specialties, procedures and conditions. To compile the rankings, U.S. News and World Report used several different objective measurements such as patient survival, number of patients and staffing numbers. The publication also used survey data from qualified physicians, who were asked to name the top five hospitals in their specialty.

Click here to see all 27 hospitals ranked in Pennsylvania by U.S. News and World Report.

View U.S. News and World Report's methodology here.