Best Hospitals In The United States: U.S. News and World Report's New Rankings

U.S. News and World Report on Tuesday released its list of the best hospitals in the country. The Mayo Clinic in Minnesota topped the publication's rankings, which looked at how each hospital performs across different specialties, procedures and conditions.

Hospitals that scored high in those categories were compiled into a top-line ranking called the "Honor Roll," made up of the top 20 hospitals in the country.

Here are those top 20 hospitals, according to U.S. News and World Report:

1. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
2. Cleveland Clinic
3. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
4. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
5. UCLA Medical Center
6. New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell
7. UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
8. Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
9. Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia
10. NYU Langone Medical Center
11. Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis
12. UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, Pittsburgh
13. Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
14. Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Stanford, California
15. Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
16. Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina
17. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
18. University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, Ann Arbor
19. Houston Methodist Hospital
20. University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora

Click here to see the full rankings.

To compile the rankings, U.S. News and World Report used several different objective measurements such as patient survival, number of patients and staffing numbers. The publication also used survey data from qualified physicians, who were asked to name the top five hospitals in their specialty.

In all, 153 hospitals made the rankings in at least one specialty.

See the hospital specialty rankings here.

VA and military hospitals were not included, the publication said, because the federal government is reluctant to release performance data from those hospitals.

Procedures and conditions that were considered included hip replacement and heart failure.

Hospitals were also ranked according to these 16 specialties:

1. Cancer
2. Cardiology and heart surgery
3. Diabetes and endocrinology
4. Ear, nose and throat
5. Gastroenterology and GI surgery
6. Geriatrics
7. Gynecology
8. Nephrology
9. Neurology and neurosurgery
10. Orthopedics
11. Pulmonology
12. Urology
13. Ophthalmology
14. Psychiatry
15. Rehabilitation
16. Rheumatology

View U.S. News and World Report's methodology here.

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