Best Children’s Hospitals 2017: 2 Wis. Facilities Make U.S News Rankings

U.S. News and World Report released its annual rankings of the best children’s hospitals in the country, highlighting hospitals across 10 pediatric specialties. The rankings also looked at the best children’s hospitals by state and identified 10 hospitals that made it onto the honor roll, which are hospitals that deliver high quality care across many specialities.

Two Wisconsin hospitals — American Family Children's Hospital in Madison and Children's Hospital in Milwaukee — made the best children’s hospitals rankings. American Family Children's Hospital was ranked across seven specialties while Children's Hospital of Milwaukee was ranked across ten specialties.

The ten pediatric specialities highlighted in the rankings 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. Johns Hopkins Children’s Center
6. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
7. (tie) Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
7. (tie) Nationwide Children’s Hospital
9. Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
10. Children’s National Medical Center"

American Family Children's Hospital was ranked 3rd for Cancer, 49th for Cardiology and Heart Surgery, 47th for Diabetes and Endocrinology, 45th for Gastroenterology and GI Surgery, 49th for Nephrology, 42nd for Pulmonology and 23rd for Urology.

Children's Hospital in Milwaukee was ranked 39th for cancer, 5th for Cardiology and Heart Surgery, 39th for Diabetes and Endocrinology, 16th for Gastroenterology and GI Surgery, 31st for Neonatology, 15th for Nephrology, 24th for Neurology and Neurosurgery, 21st for Orthopedics, 17th for Pulmonology and 38th for Urology.

• Click here to see the top hospitals across every speciality.

The 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. Johns Hopkins Children’s Center
6. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
7. Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
7. Nationwide Children’s Hospital
9. Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
10. Children’s National Medical Center

U.S. News’ methodology includes measures such as clinical outcomes, patient volume, infection control and more. For all 10 categories, except cardiology and heart surgery, a third of the hospital’s score was tied to outcomes such as survival, infections and surgical complications. For cardiology and heart surgery, outcomes account for 38.3 percent of the score. More than 50 percent of the score was based on metrics for each hospital’s commitment to patient safety and the remainder of the score rested on a survey of pediatricians in the various specialties.

For the 2017-18 rankings, 113 hospitals turned over enough data to U.S. News to be evaluated in at least one specialty and 82 of those hospitals were ranked in one or more. Only the 50 top scoring hospitals across each specialty are ranked numerically.

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