Newsweek Top Hospitals Ranking Includes Newton-Wellesley Hospital

NEWTON, MA — The coronavirus pandemic brought home the need for access to quality health care, Newsweek said as is released a list Thursday of the world’s top hospitals, which include a facility in Newton that came in at number 87.

Newsweek Global Editor-in-Chief Nancy Cooper described the list as “may be our most important ranking yet” given the demand placed on hospitals during the pandemic.

This is the third year Newsweek has released the ranking, topped both globally and in the United States by the famed Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. This year Newsweek partnered with the global data research firm Statistica Inc. to compile the ranking.

The list includes 2,000 hospitals in 25 countries that “stand out for their consistent excellence, including distinguished physicians, top-notch nursing care and state-of-the-art technology,” Cooper said as she released the list.

In Newton, one hospital made “The World’s Best Hospitals 2021” ranking:

• Newton-Wellesley Hospital, scored 68.97 percent, and performed "above average" for a ranking of 87 nationally.

Patch has reached out to the hospital for comment.

Three data sources were used to compile the list: recommendations from medical experts; results from patient surveys; and key performance indicators measuring things such as inpatient mortality rates, injuries to patients, bed turnover, Medicare and Medicaid measures, and occupancy.

Every hospital received a score, but Newsweek noted the scores are only comparable among hospitals in the same country. For example, a score of 90 percent in one country doesn’t necessarily indicate the quality is better than in a hospital in another country that received a score of 87 percent.

The top three U.S. hospitals had the same ranking globally, and all 10 of the top U.S. hospitals were among the top 35 in the world, according to the ranking.

The Top 10 U.S. hospitals on the ranking are:

1. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota (No. 1 globally)
2. Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland (No. 2 globally)
3. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (No. 3 globally)
4. The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore (No. 5 globally)
5. Stanford Health Care – Stanford Hospital, Stanford, Connecticut (No. 13 globally)
6. Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California (No. 17 globally)
7. The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City (No. 30 globally)
8. University of Michigan Hospitals – Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan (No. 23 globally)
9. Brigham And Women’s Hospital, Boston (No. 25 globally)
10. New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, New York City (No. 33 globally)

The top 8 in Massachusetts:

1. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (No. 3 nationally)
2. Brigham And Women’s Hospital, Boston (No. 9 nationally)
3. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston. (No. 31 nationally)
4. Tufts Medical Center, Boston. (No. 50 nationally)
5. Brigham And Women's Faulkner Hospital, Boston. (No. 60 nationally)
6. Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton (No. 87 nationally)
7. Umass Memorial, Worcester (No. 94 nationally)
8. Baystate Medical Center, Springfield (No. 100 nationally)

» Read more on the methodology from Newsweek.