2 CA Children’s Hospitals Ranked Among Nation’s Best: U.S. News

CALIFORNIA — Two pediatric medical centers in California were included in U.S. News & World Report's 2022-23 best children’s hospitals rankings released June 14.

The rankings highlight the top 50 centers in 10 pediatric specialties: cancer; cardiology and heart surgery; diabetes and endocrinology; gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery; neonatology; nephrology; neurology and neurosurgery; orthopedics; pulmonology and lung surgery; and urology.

For the second year, U.S. News provided expanded rankings of hospitals by both state and multistate region. Every hospital included in the state rankings was ranked in at least two pediatric specialties.

In California, the following hospitals were included.

• Children's Hospital Los Angeles, ranked in 10 pediatric specialties.
• Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, ranked in 10 pediatric specialties.
• Rady Children's Hospital San Diego, ranked in 10 pediatric specialties.
• University of California, San Francisco Benioff Children's Hospitals, San Francisco and Oakland, ranked in 10 pediatric specialties.
• Children's Health of Orange County, ranked in seven pediatric specialties.
• University of California, Los Angeles Mattel Children's Hospital, ranked in seven pediatric specialties.
• Valley Children's Healthcare and Hospital, ranked in six pediatric specialties.
• University of California, Davis Children's Hospital, ranked in five pediatric specialties.
• Loma Linda University Children's Hospital, ranked in three pediatric specialties.
• Shriners Hospitals for Children-Northern California, Sacramento, ranked in one pediatric specialty.

This year, U.S. News included a measure for equity, diversity and inclusion in its methodology. It also relied less on expert opinion in most specialties.

Ten hospitals were named to the honor roll — a distinction given to pediatric medical centers that “deliver exceptionally high-quality care across multiple specialties,” U.S. News said in a news release.

Boston Children’s Hospital claimed the top spot on the honor roll for the ninth consecutive year. Additionally, it ranked as the top children’s hospital in Massachusetts, as well as the No. 1 hospital in five of the 10 specialties that U.S. News considered. Here’s the honor roll.

1. Boston Children’s Hospital.
2. Texas Children’s Hospital.
3. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
4. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
5. Children’s National Hospital.
6. UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
7. Children’s Hospital Colorado.
8. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
9. Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
10. Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.

Here are the top five children’s hospitals in selected specialties.

Pediatric Cardiology and Heart Surgery

1. Texas Children’s Hospital.
2. Boston Children’s Hospital.
3. UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
4. MUSC Children's Heart Network of South Carolina.
5. New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell.

Pediatric Cancer

1. Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center.
2. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
3. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
4. Texas Children's Hospital.
5. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Neonatology

1. Children's National Hospital.
2. Boston Children’s Hospital.
3. Texas Children’s Hospital.
4. UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
5. UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals, San Francisco and Oakland.

U.S. News gathered clinical data from nearly 200 pediatric medical centers around the country, looking at measures such as patient outcomes, including mortality and infection rates, as well as health equity, including the availability of clinical resources, and compliance with best practices.

More than 100 pediatric specialists and other experts provided input through methodology working groups. The North Carolina-based research and consulting firm RTI International collected and analyzed the data.

Read more on the U.S. News’ methodology.