Where JP Hospitals Stood In Recent US News & World Report Rankings

JAMAICA PLAIN, MA — U.S. News and World Report released its annual rankings of 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.

The rankings also looked at the best hospitals in every state and the 20 hospitals that made it to the honor roll, a distinction given to hospitals that deliver exceptional treatment across multiple specialties.

It appears hospitals located in JP - including Lemuel Shattuck Hospital and Arbour Hospital - didn't make the rankings. The Veterans Hospital and Brigham and Women's Faulkner campus also did not appear to make the list, though Faulkner did get graded.

Shattuck is an acute long-term care hospital in on Morton Street with 260 beds. Survey data for the latest year available shows that the hospital had a total of 2,445 admissions. Its physicians performed 1,168 outpatient surgeries (but no inpatient surgeries).

Arbour Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Boston, MA, with 118 beds. Survey data for the latest year available shows that the hospital had a total of 3,451 admissions, according to US News And World Report. Its physicians performed 2 inpatient and 35 outpatient surgeries, according to that data.

Arbour recently made the news when a patient was charged with beating his roommate to death there in 2015.

Here's how Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital did when it got rated. It rated 45.7/100 when it comes to GI surgery, but got an "excellent" on patient services. It scored an "average" when it came to heart failure procedures and knee replacements. Still, it didn't win any special recognition.

But there were a handful of area hospitals that made the list.

Mass. General ranked as the No. 1 hospital in Massachusetts, No. 4 in the country. MGH ranked in the top 50 in 16 adult specialties, including nine top-5 rankings. The hospital was No. 2 in diabetes and endocrinology, ear nose and throat, and psychiatry.

Brigham and Women's main campus ranked in the top 50 in 11 adult specialties, including three top-5 rankings. The hospital finished fourth in cancer and gynecology.

Tufts and Boston Medical each finished in the top 50 in one adult specialty.

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 hospitals 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.

- Mike Carraggi contributed to this article

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