CHOP Named Nation's 2nd Best Children's Hospital: U.S. News

PHILADELPHIA — After being ranked the third best children's hospital in the nation in 2018, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia got a bump in the rankings this year.

According to U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings, CHOP is ranked the nation's second best children's hospital.

The best children’s hospitals for 2019-20 rankings released on Tuesday feature the 50 best hospitals in 10 pediatric specialties and 10 hospitals that landed on U.S. News’ honor roll. The hospitals on the honor roll “deliver exceptionally high-quality care across multiple specialties.”

CHOP was ranked for pediatric specialties as such:

• Diabetes & Endocrinology: No. 1
• Gastroenterology & Gastrointestinal Surgery: No. 1
• Neonatology: No. 3
• Nephrology: No. 4
• Neurology & Neurosurgery: No. 2
• Orthopedics: No. 3
• Pulmonology & Lung Surgery: No. 2
• Urology: No. 2

In 2018, CHOP was ranked No. 3 overall, and in 2017 it was ranked No. 2.

Over in western Pennsylvania, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh was ranked the No. 8 best children's hospital in the nation.

“While health care is rapidly changing, the objective of U.S. News’ Best Children’s Hospitals remains the same: provide families with a comprehensive and trusted starting point as they, in consultation with their doctors and other medical professionals, search for the pediatric care they need,” Ben Harder, Chief of Health Analysis and Managing Editor at U.S. News, said in a news release. “Our rankings, now in their 13th year, have always put parents and young patients at the front and center of our mission.”

The 10 hospitals that made U.S. News’ honor roll are:

1. Boston Children’s Hospital
2. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
3. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
4. Texas Children’s Hospital
5. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
6. Children’s National Medical Center
7. Nationwide Children’s Hospital
8. UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
9. Johns Hopkins Children’s Center
10. Seattle Children’s Hospital

U.S. News says its methodology in tabulating the rankings takes into account measures like patient outcome, including mortality and infection rates, and also available clinical resources and compliance with best practices. (You can read more about the methodology here.)

To see the full list of best children’s hospitals via U.S. News, click here.