Best Hospitals In Rhode Island: U.S. News Rankings 2018-19

U.S. News & World Report has released its rankings of the best hospitals in America for 2018-19, evaluating more than 4,500 hospitals in the country across 16 specialties and nine procedures and conditions. U.S. News also ranked the best hospitals in America by region.

No Rhode Island hospitals made national rankings, but several were noted to be "high performing" in a number of procedures or conditions. U.S. News explains that a high performing rating means a hospital was not nationally ranked but was significantly better than average in a specialty.

More than 1,100 received such marks from U.S. News, including the following five Rhode Island hospitals:

• Kent County Memorial Hospital, Warwick - High performing in two procedures or conditions.
• Miriam Hospital, Providence - High performing in two adult specialties and five procedures or conditions.
• Newport Hospital, Newport - High performing in one procedure or condition.
• Rhode Island Hospital, Providence - High performing in two procedures or conditions.
• South County Hospital, Wakefield - High performing in one procedure or condition.

A total of 29 hospitals were rated as high performing in all nine procedures and conditions. In all, 158 hospitals in the country ranked nationally in at least one specialty.

Massachusetts had 10 hospitals that were nationally ranked in at least one speciality, and two Bay State hospitals made the U.S. News's "honor roll" list of 20 hospitals nationwide noted for delivering “exceptional treatment across multiple areas of care.” Massachusetts General was No. 4, while Brigham and Women's was 20th.

The hospitals that made the 2018-19 honor roll are:

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. (1)
Cleveland Clinic (2)
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore (3)Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (4)University of Michigan Hospitals-Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor (5)
UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco (6)
UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles (7)
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles (8)
Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Stanford, Calif. (9)
New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, N.Y. (10)
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis (11)
Mayo Clinic Phoenix (11)
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago (13)
Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia (14)
NYU Langone Hospitals, New York (15)
UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, Pittsburgh (15)
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tenn. (17)
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York (18)
Duke University Hospital, Durham, N.C. (19)
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston (20)

You can see the full rankings here.

U.S. News uses two methodologies, one for procedures and conditions ratings and another for specialty rankings. The rankings are produced by U.S. News with research organization, RTI International. U.S. News says its methodologies in most areas of care are based largely or entirely on objective measures like risk-adjusted survival and readmission rates, volume, patient experience, patient safety and quality of nursing. (You can read more about the methodology here. )

The specialties included in the rankings are:

• Cancer
• Cardiology and Heart Surgery
• Diabetes and Endocrinology
• Ear, Nose and Throat
• Gastroenterology and GI Surgery
• Geriatrics
• Gynecology
• Nephrology
• Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Ophthalmology
• Orthopedics
• Pulmonology
• Psychiatry
• Rehabilitation
• Rheumatology
• Urology

The procedures and conditions included in the rankings are:

• COPD
• Heart Bypass Surgery
• Heart Failure
• Hip Replacement
• Knee Replacement
• Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
• Aortic Valve Surgery
• Colon Cancer Surgery
• Lung Cancer Surgery

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