35 Best Hospitals In Florida: U.S. News & World Report

TAMPA, FL — Thirty-five Florida facilities were named by U.S. News and World Report when it released its annual rankings of the best hospitals in the country for 2017-18, listing 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.

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. Cleveland Clinic was ranked number two and Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore climbed up the rankings one spot this year to number three on the honor roll.

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U.S. News ranked 152 hospitals nationally in at least one specialty and 535 hospitals were recognized as best regional hospitals for those seeking care close to home.

In Florida, the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville was ranked number one in the state. It was also nationally ranked across seven specialties. Seven other hospitals in Florida were nationally ranked across specialties.

According to the rankings, the best hospitals in Florida are:

• Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Jacksonville (1)
• Tampa General Hospital, Tampa (2)
• UF Health Shands Hospital, Gainesville (3)
• Florida Hospital, Orlando (4)
• Orlando Regional Medical Center, Orlando (4)
• Baptist Hospital of Miami, Miami (6)
• Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville, Jacksonville (7)
• Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston (8)
• Sarasota Memorial Health-Sarasota Hospital, Sarasota (8)
• Holy Cross Hospital, Fort Lauderdale (10)
• Morton Plant Hospital, Clearwater (10)
• NCH Downtown Naples Hospital, Naples (12)
• University of Miami Hospital, Miami (12)
• Lee Memorial Hospital, Fort Myers (14)
• Memorial Regional Hospital, Hollywood (14)
• Boca Raton Regional Hospital, Boca Raton (16)
• Flagler Hospital, St. Augustine (16)
• Munroe Regional Medical Center, Ocala (16)
• South Miami Hospital, South Miami (16)
• St. Joseph's Hospital, Tampa (16)
• West Kendall Baptist Hospital, Miami (16)
• Winter Haven Hospital, Winter Haven (16)
• Baptist Medical Center Beaches, Jacksonville Beach (23)
• Bethesda Hospital East, Boynton Beach (23)
• Florida Hospital Waterman, Tavares (23)
• Health First Holmes Regional Medical Center, Melbourne (23)
• Heart of Florida Regional Medical Center, Davenport (23)
• Homestead Hospital, Homestead (23)
• Lakeland Regional Health, Lakeland (23)
• Mease Countryside Hospital, Safety Harbor (23)
• Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach (23)
• UF Health Jacksonville, Jacksonville (23)
• Memorial Hospital West, Pembroke Pines (33)
• North Florida Regional Medical Center, Gainesville (33)
• Martin Medical Center, Stuart (35)

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.

See also: Florida's Best Children's Hospitals Ranked

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 are:

• Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
• Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland
• Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
• Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
• UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
• University of Michigan Hospital and Health Centers, Ann Arbor
• Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
• New-York Presbyterian Hospital, New York
• Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Stanford, California
• Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia
• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
• Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
• Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
• UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, Pittsburgh
• University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora
• Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Philadelphia
• Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina
• Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
• NYU Langone Medical Center, New York
• 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
• Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
• Aortic Valve Surgery
• Colon Cancer Surgery
• Lung Cancer Surgery

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