See Philly Hospital Ranks In US News Best Hospitals List

PHILADELPHIA — New hospital rankings from U.S. News & World Report are out. So how did hospitals in Philadelphia fare?

The hospital rankings for 2019-20 include the honor roll, top ranked hospitals in 12 specialty categories, and the top ranked hospitals by state and metro region.

Overall, two Pennsylvania hospitals made the honor roll and 26 hospitals were on the state's best hospitals list.

Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian and Jefferson Health-Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals were ranked No. 2 and No. 3 in PA.

Pennsylvania Hospital earned a No. 9 rank in the state while Jeanes Hospital was ranked No. 21.

University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian was ranked nationally in 11 specialties and was included on honor roll tied for No. 18 with Mayo Clinic-Phoenix.

Jefferson Health-Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals got ranked nationally in eight specialties.

See the full list of PA hospital ranks here.

This year, the rankings of the best hospitals come with an updated methodology that emphasizes two new patient-centric measures, according to the publication.

Across the 12 specialty rankings — which cover categories like cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes and endocrinology, and nephrology — U.S. News & World added two new measures that are patient centered: patient outcome and patient experience.

"In each of those areas, we are now assessing how successful a hospital is at sending patients home," Harder said. The rankings now look at whether after receiving care, patients end up going home or require further care at a rehab facility or even at a different hospital.

However, the methodology adjusts for how sick a patient was when they were admitted to the hospital so that hospitals that admit sicker patients are not penalized in the rankings.

The second patient-centered measure added to the methodology is patient experience. Data from a federally mandated survey was used to assess this measure, according to U.S. News. The survey covers topics like how good doctors and nurses were at communicating with patients and how well a patient understood how to take care of themselves after leaving the hospital.

The 12 specialties that hospitals were ranked for are: cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes and endocrinology, ear, nose and throat, gastroenterology and GI surgery, geriatrics, gynecology, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology and lung surgery, and urology.

U.S. News & World Report said the 2019-20 rankings evaluated nearly every community hospital in America. Only 165 hospitals out of over 4,500 were ranked in one specialty while 569 hospitals were ranked among the best regional hospitals. A hospital was ranked regionally based on its performance in delivering complex and common care, U.S. News says. The rankings are jointly produced by U.S. News and RTI International, a North Carolina-based research organization. (Read the full U.S. News best hospitals methodology.)