NYC's Best Hospitals For 2020: Latest U.S. News Rankings

NEW YORK, NY — New York City's hospitals once again performed well in this the U.S. News & World Report's annual list of the best hospitals in the country, with the city's top hospitals earning spots on U.S. News' "Honor Roll" and nearly a dozen hospitals being named best in New York State.

Three New York City hospitals made U.S. News' Honor Roll of the top 20 — more than any other city — and 11 hospitals were on the state’s best hospitals list. New York-Presbyterian's Columbia and Cornell hospitals ranked fourth in the nation, followed by NYU Langone at ninth and Mount Sinai at 14th on the honor roll.

The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, was once again ranked as the best hospital in the nation. Rounding out the top five were the Cleveland Clinic, Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, New York-Presbyterian and UCLA Medical Center.

U.S. News updated rankings for 16 medical specialties: cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes and endocrinology, ear, nose and throat, gastroenterology and GI surgery, geriatrics, gynecology, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, ophthalmology, orthopedics, psychiatry, pulmonology and lung surgery, rehabilitation, rheumatology and urology.

Twelve of the specialty rankings — which cover categories such as cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes and endocrinology and nephrology — are determined mostly by data; the other four specialties — ophthalmology, psychiatry, rehabilitation and rheumatology — are determined entirely by expert opinion, U.S. News said.

U.S. News & World Report has released its latest rankings of the best hospitals in the United States, with all rankings coming from data that was derived before the coronavirus pandemic. So the pandemic’s impact on hospitals nationwide is not shown in the latest rankings.

"The pandemic has altered, perhaps permanently, how patients get care and from whom they get it. Amid the disruption, we are steadfastly committed to providing the public with authoritative data for comparing hospital quality," said Ben Harder, managing editor and chief of health analysis at U.S. News. "No hospital’s clinical team came through this unprecedented health crisis unscathed."

In New York City the top-ranked hospitals for 2020-2021 are:

• New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell: No. 1 in state with 15 ranked specialties and 1 high performing specialties;
• NYU Langone Hospitals : No. 2 in state with 15 ranked specialties and no high performing specialties;
• Mount Sinai Hospital: No. 3 in state with 11 ranked specialties and one high performing specialties;
• Long Island Jewish Medical Center: No. 6 in state with five ranked specialties and six high performing specialties;
• Lenox Hill Hospital: No. 9 in state with three ranked specialties and six high performing specialties;
• Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West Hospitals: No. 11 in state with two ranked specialties and four high performing specialties;
• NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital: No. 14 in state with no ranked specialties and six high performing specialties;
• Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital: No. 16 in state with one ranked specialties and four high performing specialties;
• New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital: No. 28 in state with no ranked or high performing specialties;
• Staten Island University Hospital: No. 28 in state with no ranked or high performing specialties.

This year, the U.S. News rankings are accompanied by their “Hospital Heroes” project, a series of profiles highlighting more than 60 health care heroes from across the country.

“Our Hospital Heroes series is a tribute to recognizing individuals at urban and rural hospitals in communities across the country who have gone above and beyond during this unparalleled time in history,” Harder said.

Methodology

U.S. News & World Report said the 2020-21 rankings evaluated nearly every community hospital in America. Only 134 hospitals out of over 4,500 were ranked in one specialty, while 563 hospitals were ranked among the best regional hospitals. A hospital was ranked regionally based on its performance in delivering complex and common care, U.S. News said. The rankings are jointly produced by U.S. News and RTI International, a North Carolina-based research organization.

(Read the full U.S. News best hospitals methodology.)