Best Children's Hospitals 2017: Six Texas Names Make U.S. News List

U.S. News and World Report has released its annual rankings of the best children’s hospitals in the country, highlighting hospitals across 10 pediatric specialties. The rankings also looked at the best children’s hospitals by state and identified 10 hospitals that made it onto the honor roll, hospitals that deliver high quality care across many specialities.

Five Texas hospitals, including three in Houston, made the best children’s hospitals rankings. Here is the list of Texas hospitals on the list:

Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas (Austin)
Cook Children's Medical Center (Fort Worth)
Texas Children's Hospital (Houston)
Children's Cancer Hospital-U. of TX M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (Houston)
Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital (Houston)

Texas Children's Hospital made the list's honor roll, and was ranked across all 10 specialties used in the study. It was ranked the top hospital in the cardiology and heart surgery category, and took the number 2 spot in pulmonology.

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The ten pediatric specialities highlighted in the rankings were:

1. Cancer
2. Cardiology and Heart Surgery
3. Diabetes and Endocrinology
4. Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Surgery
5. Neonatology
6. Nephrology
7. Neurology and Neurosurgery
8. Orthopedics
9. Pulmonology
10. Urology
    
    Click here to see the top hospitals across every speciality.

The hospitals that made U.S. News’ honor roll are:

1. Boston Children’s Hospital

2. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

3. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

4. Texas Children’s Hospital

5. Johns Hopkins Children’s Center

6. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

7. Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

7. Nationwide Children’s Hospital

9. Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC

10. Children’s National Medical Center

U.S. News’ methodology includes measures such as clinical outcomes, patient volume, infection control and more. For all 10 categories, except cardiology and heart surgery, a third of the hospital’s score was tied to outcomes such as survival, infections, and surgical complications. For cardiology and heart surgery, outcomes account for 38.3 percent of the score. More than 50 percent of the score was based on metrics for each hospital’s commitment to patient safety, and the remainder of the score rested on a survey of pediatricians in the various specialties.

For the 2017-18 rankings, 113 hospitals supplied enough data to U.S. News to be evaluated in at least one specialty, and 82 of those hospitals were ranked in one or more. Only the 50 top scoring hospitals across each specialty are ranked numerically.

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