Best Children’s Hospitals 2017: 3 MI Facilities Make U.S News Rankings

U.S. News and World Report released its annual rankings of the best children’s hospitals in the country, highlighting hospitals across 10 pediatric specialties. The rankings also looked at the best children’s hospitals by state and identified 10 hospitals that made it onto the honor roll, which are hospitals that deliver high quality care across many specialities.

Three Michigan Hospitals — the University of Michigan’s C.S Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor, Children’s Hospital of Michigan in Detroit, and Spectrum Health’s Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids — made the best children’s hospital rankings. C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital was ranked in all 10 specialties, Children’s Hospital of Michigan in seven and the DeVos Children’s Hospital in six.

The ten 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

C.S Mott’s highest ranking came in cardiology and heart surgery where it was ranked third nationally. It was also 10th in cancer treatment. Other top 10 rankings were by Children’s Hospital, which was seventh in cancer treatment, and DeVos Children’s hospital was also sixth in the same category.

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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 UPMC

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.

Feroze Dhanoa (Patch Staff) contributed to this story.

Photo courtesy of C.S Mott Children’s Hospital.