​Best Children’s Hospitals 2017: Chicago's Lurie Makes U.S. News' Top 10

CHICAGO, IL — The Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago made U.S. News and World Report's top 10 "honor roll" of the best children's hospitals in the country. The magazine released its annual rankings Tuesday, highlighting hospitals across 10 pediatric specialties. The rankings also looked at the best children’s hospitals by state and identified 10 hospitals that made its honor roll, which are hospitals that deliver high quality care across many specialities.

Lurie Children's Hosptial was ranked seventh in the U.S. News honor roll tied with Nationwide Children's Hospital. Two other area children's facilities — University of Chicago's Comer Hospital and Advocate Children's Hospital in Oak Lawn — were ranked by the publication, along with the Children's Hospital of Illinois in Peoria. (Get Patch real-time email alerts for the latest news for Chicago — or your neighborhood. And iPhone users: Check out Patch's new app.)

The 10 pediatric specialities highlighted in the rankings are:

1. Cancer
2. Cardiology and Heart Surgery
3. Diabetes and Endocrinology
4. Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Surgery
5. Neonatology
6. Nephrology
7. Neurology and Neurosurgery
8. Orthopedics
9. Pulmonology
10. Urology

Lurie Hospital was ranked in the top 25 in all of the medical specialties judged by the publication. In seven of the categories, the facility was in the top 15: cancer (12th); cardiology and heart surgery (third); gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery (seventh); nephrology (13th); neurology and neurosurgery (eighth); orthopedics (11th); and urology (fourth).

Comer Hosptial was ranked 42nd in neurology and neurosurgery, and Advocate Children's Hospital rated 28th in cardiology and heart surgery. Children's Hospital of Illinois was ranked in two specialties, neonatology (49th) and urology (29th).

• Click here to see the top hospitals across every speciality.

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 (tied for seventh)
8. Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio (tied for seventh)
9. Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
10. Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, D.C.

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.

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.

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