Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Ranked Nation's 9th Best Pediatic Hospital

PITTSBURGH, PA - Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC has earned a place on U.S News & World Report’s Honor Roll of America’s Best Children’s Hospital. The accolade marks the eighth consecutive year Children’s has appeared on the U.S. News list of the best children’s hospitals.

The Best Children’s Hospitals rankings highlight the top 50 U.S. pediatric hospitals in each of 10 specialties: cancer; cardiology and heart surgery; diabetes and endocrinology; gastroenterology and GI surgery; neonatology; nephrology; neurology and neurosurgery; orthopedics; pulmonology; and urology.Children’s is ranked ninth on the honor roll and is ranked in all 10 of the specialties.

“We are proud to be consistently recognized as one of the best children’s hospitals in the country,” Children’s president Christopher Gessner said in a statement.. “It is rewarding for our physicians, nurses and support staff, who every day work together with skill and passion to provide the best care for children and adolescents with the most complex medical conditions.”

The hospitals named to the Honor Roll of Best Children’s Hospitals for 2017-18:
1. Boston Children’s Hospital

2. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

3. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

4. Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston

5. Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, Baltimore

6. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

7. Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

7. Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio

9. Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC

10. Children’s National Medical Center, Washington