Best Children’s Hospitals 2017: 6 Named In Florida

ST. PETERSBURG, FL — U.S. News & World Report has released its rankings of the best children’s hospitals across the country. While no hospital in Florida earned coveted top 10 “honor roll” status, six earned high marks in the annual rankings that were released Tuesday. The rankings highlight hospitals across 10 pediatric specialties.

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.

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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.

The 10 pediatric specialties highlighted in the rankings are:

• Cancer
• Cardiology and Heart Surgery
• Diabetes and Endocrinology
• Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Surgery
• Neonatology
• Nephrology
• Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Orthopedics
• Pulmonology
• Urology

Florida’s best children’s hospitals, according to U.S. News are:

• Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, St. Petersburg
• Arnold Palmer Children’s Hospital, Orlando
• Holtz Children’s Hospital at UM-Jackson Memorial, Miami
• Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, Miami
• Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital at Memorial, Hollywood
• UF Health Stands Children’s Hospital, Gainesville

Click here to see the top hospitals across every specialty.

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, Houston

5. John Hopkins Children’s Center, Baltimore

6. Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles

7. Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

7. Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio

9. Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

10. Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, D.C.

For more information about the rankings, visit U.S. News online.

Patch’s Joe Vince contributed to this story.

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