Community Corner
Two Boston Hospitals Make It Into the Country’s Top 10
Boston is the only city to rank so well in the U.S. News & World Report's annual ranking.
Boston hospitals Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital were ranked second and ninth best hospitals in the country respectively, according to the U.S. News & World Report's annual ranking of U.S. hospitals.
Boston is the only city in the country to have two hospitals ranked in the top 10.
Massachusetts General Hospital’s psychiatry department was also voted best in the country.
Find out what's happening in West Roxburywith free, real-time updates from Patch.
The ranking, released Tuesday, judged hospitals on 16 medical specialties from cancer to urology. Hospitals with very high scores in at least six specialties earned a spot on the Honor Roll, which this year included only 17 hospitals.
Here is the full Honor Call ranking:
Find out what's happening in West Roxburywith free, real-time updates from Patch.
1. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
2. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
3. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md.
4. Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
5. UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
6. New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell, New York
7. Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia
8. UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
9. Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
10. Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
11. University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle
12.(tie) Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
12.(tie) UPMC-University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
14. Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina
15. NYU Langone Medical Center, New York
16. Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
17. Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis
The ranking of hospitals in the Boston area is as follows:
1. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
2. Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
3. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston
4. McLean Hospital, Belmont
4. New England Baptist Hospital
6. South Shore Hospital, South Weymouth
6. Tufts Medical Center
8. Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington
9. Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton Lower Falls
9. Winchester Hospital, Winchester
11. Boston Medical Center
11. Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital
13. Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth, Plymouth
13. Lowell General Hospital, Lowell
13. MetroWest Medical Center, Framingham
13. North Shore Medical Center, Salem
13. Steward Good Samaritan, Brockton
>> For the full report, click here.
Have you visited or stayed in any of these hospitals? We would love to hear about your experiences in the Comments section.
Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.
