8 Best Hospitals In Tennessee: US News And World Report

NASHVILLE, TN — U.S. News and World Report named the top eight hospitals in Tennessee as part of its annual rankings of the best hospitals in the country for 2017-18, which ranks more than 4,500 medical centers in the U.S. across 25 specialties, procedures and conditions. The rankings also named 20 hospitals across America to the honor roll, a distinction given to hospitals that deliver exceptional treatment across multiple specialties.

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, topped the honor roll for the second consecutive year. The hospital was ranked across 15 specialties and ranked in the top five for 13 of the specialties. Cleveland Clinic was ranked number two and Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore climbed up the rankings one spot this year to number three on the honor roll.

U.S. News ranked 152 hospitals nationally in at least one specialty and 535 hospitals were recognized as best regional hospitals for those seeking care close to home.

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In Tennessee, Vanderbilt University Medical Center ranked as the number one hospital in the state and was nationally ranked in seven adult and ten pediatric specialties, and was also recognized as being high performing in nine procedures or conditions. Methodist Hospitals of Memphis was nationally ranked in eight pediatric specialties.

The eight best hospitals in Tennessee, according to U.S. News and World Report are:

• 1. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville
• 2. University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville
• 3. CHI Memorial Hospital, Chattanooga
• T4. Methodist Hospitals of Memphis
• T4. St. Thomas West, Nashville
• 6. Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis
• 7. St. Thomas Midtown, Nashville
• 8. TriStar Centennial Medical Center, Nashville

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 patients 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.

• Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
• Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland
• Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
• Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
• UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
• University of Michigan Hospital and Health Centers, Ann Arbor
• Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
• New-York Presbyterian Hospital, New York
• Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Stanford, California
• Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia
• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
• Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
• Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
• UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, Pittsburgh
• University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora
• Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Philadelphia
• Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina
• Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
• NYU Langone Medical Center, New York
• Mayo Clinic Phoenix, Phoenix

The specialties included in the rankings are:

• Cancer
• Cardiology and Heart Surgery
• Diabetes and Endocrinology
• Ear, Nose and Throat
• Gastroenterology and GI Surgery
• Geriatrics
• Gynecology
• Nephrology
• Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Ophthalmology
• Orthopedics
• Pulmonology
• Psychiatry
• Rehabilitation
• Rheumatology
• Urology

The procedures and conditions included in the rankings are:

• COPD
• Heart Bypass Surgery
• Heart Failure
• Hip Replacement
• Knee Replacement
• Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
• Aortic Valve Surgery
• Colon Cancer Surgery
• Lung Cancer Surgery

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