Puget Sound Children’s Hospital Ranked Among Nation’s Best: U.S. News

SEATTLE — A Washington pediatric medical center has been included in U.S. News & World Report's 2022-23 Best Children’s Hospitals rankings released Tuesday.

The rankings highlight the top 50 centers in 10 pediatric specialties: cancer; cardiology and heart surgery; diabetes and endocrinology; gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery; neonatology; nephrology; neurology and neurosurgery; orthopedics; pulmonology and lung surgery; and urology.

For the second year, U.S. News provided expanded rankings of hospitals by both state and multi-state region. Every hospital included in the state rankings was ranked in at least two pediatric specialties.

In Washington, the big winner was Seattle Children's Hospital. While not quite cracking U.S. News' Honor Roll of the top ten pediatric centers in the nation, it was ranked as the 7th best children's hospital in the nation for nephrology, and the 9th best for patients with pediatric diabetes. It also scored well for skilled urology and pulmonology treatment.

This year, U.S. News included a measure for equity, diversity and inclusion in its methodology. It also relied less on expert opinion in most specialties.

Ten hospitals were named to the Honor Roll — a distinction given to pediatric medical centers that “deliver exceptionally high-quality care across multiple specialties,” U.S. News said in a news release.

Boston Children’s Hospital claimed the top spot on the honor roll for the ninth consecutive year. Additionally, it ranked as the top children’s hospital in Massachusetts, as well as the No. 1 hospital in five of the 10 specialties that U.S. News considered. Here’s the honor roll:

1. Boston Children’s Hospital
2. Texas Children’s Hospital
3. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
4. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
5. Children’s National Hospital
6. UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
7. Children’s Hospital Colorado
8. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
9. Nationwide Children’s Hospital
10. Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford

Here are the top five children’s hospitals in selected specialties:

Pediatric Cardiology & Heart Surgery

1. Texas Children’s Hospital
2. Boston Children’s Hospital
3. UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
4. MUSC Children's Heart Network of South Carolina
5. New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell

Pediatric Cancer

1. Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
2. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
3. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
4. Texas Children's Hospital
5. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Neonatology

1. Children's National Hospital
2. Boston Children’s Hospital
3. Texas Children’s Hospital
4. UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
5. UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals, San Francisco and Oakland

U.S. News gathered clinical data from nearly 200 pediatric medical centers around the country, looking at measures such as patient outcomes, including mortality and infection rates; as well as health equity, including the availability of clinical resources, and compliance with best practices.

Also, more than 100 pediatric specialists and other experts provided input through methodology working groups. The North Carolina-based research and consulting firm RTI International collected and analyzed the data. Read more on the U.S. News’ methodology.