Best Hospitals In New York City: U.S. News And World Report Finds City's Facilities In Good Health

NEW YORK CITY, NY – As Washington throws around health care as a political football, New York City's medical centers are getting on with business – and they're in excellent health. The annual U.S. News and World Report into the nation's best hospitals was released Tuesday – and the city's rank highly.

The list features the best hospitals in the country for 2017-18, ranking more than 4,500 medical centers in the U.S. in 25 specialties, procedures and conditions. It also looks at the best hospitals in every state, with 20 making it to the honor roll – a distinction given to facilities that deliver exceptional treatment across multiple specialties.

Among those 20 this year are New York-Presbyterian, Mount Sinai and NYU Langone Medical Center.

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The Hospital for Special Surgery, on East 70th Street, was ranked number one in the country for orthopedic care, while Memorial Sloan Kettering was in the top five for cancer care and New York-Presbyterian was number three for cardiology and heart surgery.

The Mayo Clinic in Minnesota was ranked the nation's best medical center for the second consecutive year.

The best hospitals in the New York City, in order of the U.S. News and World Reports ranking, are:

New York-Presbyterian Hospital

Mount Sinai Hospital

NYU Langone Medical Center

St. Francis Hospital

NYU Winthrop Hospital

Montefiore Medical Center

Lenox Hill Hospital

Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Staten Island University Hospital

Mount Sinai Beth Israel

Mount Sinai St. Luke's-Roosevelt

New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital

Maimonides Medical Center

New York-Presbyterian/Queens

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. 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

Main image of New York Presbyterian Hospital by MassMatt/Flickr