These Wisconsin Hospitals Are The State’s Best: U.S. News

WISCONSIN — From Madison to Eau Claire and Milwaukee, several Wisconsin hospitals were recently ranked among the best-performing in the state, according to the latest ranking from U.S. News & World Report released Tuesday.

The list, now in its 33rd edition, rates the 20 best hospitals in the country. The ranking also includes top regional hospitals and rankings based on specialty care. U.S. News evaluated over 4,500 hospitals across 15 specialties plus 19 procedures and conditions.

New to the list were rankings for ovarian cancer surgery, prostate cancer surgery and uterine cancer surgery. The 2022-23 rankings also took into account several health equity measures for the first time, noting hospitals which provide more care to low income patients and those which have racial disparities in medical and surgical outcomes.

The rankings are meant to help patients and doctors make health care decisions, according to Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor of U.S. News.

University Hospital in Madison was named the top hospital in Wisconsin. The hospital received high marks for procedures and conditions including COPD and heart attacks.

Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin Froedtert Hospital was ranked second in the state, and rated particularly high in cancer and cardiology care.

The following Wisconsin hospitals were also ranked:

No. 3: Aurora St. Lukes Medical Center, Milwaukee.
No. 4: Aurora Medical Center, Grafton.
No. 5: Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire.

U.S. News made several adjustments in its evaluation of hospital visits in 2020 to normalize its 2022 rankings against the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The rankings excluded all hospital visits in March 2020 as well as visits in which a patient was diagnosed with COVID-19. Visits to any hospital were excluded if they occurred during a month of 2020 in which the hospital’s COVID-19 rate exceeded the national average.

Learn more about the U.S. News Best Hospitals methodology.

Of the hospitals evaluated, 164 earned top 50 rankings in at least one of the specialty care categories, and nearly 500 were recognized as Best Regional Hospitals, based on their strong performance in multiple areas of care.

In addition to state, regional and specialty rankings, U.S. News also announced the 20 hospitals named to this year’s Honor Roll, which recognizes the top hospitals nationwide that deliver exceptional treatment across multiple areas of care.

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, claimed the top ranking on the Honor Roll for the seventh consecutive year. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles is ranked second, and NYU Langone Hospitals came in third.

Among notable specialties, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston is the top-ranked hospital for cancer, the Cleveland Clinic is No. 1 in cardiology and heart surgery and NYU Langone Hospitals is the top hospital in neurology and neurosurgery.

See this year’s Best Hospital Rankings.