Best Hospitals In Wisconsin 2017: U.S. News & World Report

WAUWATOSA, WI — The University of Wisconsin Hospitals in Madison was ranked as the number one hospital in the state by U.S. News and World Report, which released its annual rankings for 2017-18 on Tuesday. Another facility, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, was the top children's hospital in the state.

The U.S. News list rates more than 4,500 medical centers in the U.S. in 25 specialties, procedures and conditions. The rankings also looked at the best hospitals in every state and 20 hospitals made it to the honor roll, a distinction given to hospitals that deliver exceptional treatment across multiple specialties.

Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee is ranked nationally in 10 pediatric specialties, including fifth nationally in Pediatric Cardiology & Heart Surgery. Children's Hospital of Wisconsin is a 297-bed children's general facility with 10,754 admissions in the most recent year reported. It performed 3,934 annual inpatient and 11,253 outpatient surgeries. Its emergency room had 66,821 visits.

University of Wisconsin Hospitals in Madison, WI is ranked nationally in 9 adult and 7 pediatric specialties. It was also high-performing in 2 adult specialties. University of Wisconsin Hospitals is a 566-bed general medical and surgical facility with 30,794 admissions in the most recent year reported. It performed 25,362 annual inpatient and 103,606 outpatient surgeries. Its emergency room had 55,660 visits.

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, topped the honor roll for the second consecutive year. The hospital was ranked across 15 specialties and ranked in the top five for 13 of the specialties.

The methodology used by U.S. News is based largely on objective measures with more than 70 percent of the rankings relying on such data. The rankings also took into account survey answers from more than 125,000 physicians across the country about reputation. U.S. News also looked at five years of Medicare data and the number of patients treated in hospitals. The methodology was also updated to avoid penalizing hospitals for treating low-income patients or for accepting high-risk cases transferred from other hospitals. For the best regional hospitals, procedures and conditions rankings were emphasized more than specialty rankings.

The hospitals on U.S. News’ honor roll include:

1. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
2. Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland
3. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
4. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
5. UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
6. University of Michigan Hospital and Health Centers, Ann Arbor
7. Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
8. New-York Presbyterian Hospital, New York
9. Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Stanford, California
10. Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia
11. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
12. Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
13. Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
14. UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, Pittsburgh
15. University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora
16. Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Philadelphia
17. Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina
18. Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
19. NYU Langone Medical Center, New York
20. Mayo Clinic Phoenix, Phoenix

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
• Aortic Valve Surgery
• Colon Cancer Surgery
• Lung Cancer Surgery

Patch Editor Feroze Dhanoa contributed to this article.

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