Best Hospitals In Texas: New U.S. News Rankings

U.S. News & World Report has released its rankings of the best hospitals in America for 2018-19, evaluating more than 4,500 hospitals in the country across 16 specialties and nine procedures and conditions. U.S. News also ranked the best hospitals in America by state.

In Texas, Houston Methodist Hospital was ranked as the state’s best hospital.

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, was named the country’s best hospital. It was tops on an “honor roll” list of 20 hospitals noted for delivering “exceptional treatment across multiple areas of care.” The Minnesota hospital was ranked in 15 specialties and rated as “high performing” in one specialty. U.S News explains that a “high performing” rating means a hospital was not nationally ranked but was significantly better than average in a specialty.

In all, 158 hospitals in the country ranked nationally in at least one specialty and more than 1,100 hospitals were rated as high performing in at least one common procedure or condition, according to U.S. News. A total of 29 hospitals were rated as “high performing” in all nine procedures and conditions. Hospitals were not ranked numerically for procedures and conditions.

Among Texas hospitals, Houston Methodist Hospital was nationally ranked in eight adult specialties. UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas ranked No. 2 on the list and was nationally ranked in seven adult specialties. Other hospitals in the top 5 were: Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston and Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston.

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston was ranked No. 1 in the nation for treating cancer.

According to the ranking, here are the best hospitals in Texas:

• Houston Methodist Hospital
• UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas
• Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas
• Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston
• Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston
• Medical City Dallas in Dallas
• Memorial Hermann Greater Heights Hospital in Houston
• Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital in Sugar Land
• Seton Medical Center Austin in Austin
• Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center in Houston
• Christus Mother Frances Hospital-Tyler in Tyler
• Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital in Houston
• Baptist Medical Center in San Antonio
• St. David's Medical Center in Austin
• Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest in Fort Worth
• Baylor Scott and White Medical Center-Temple in Temple
• Methodist Hospital in San Antonio
• Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth
• Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas in Dallas
• University Hospital in San Antonio
• Christus St. Michael Health System-Texarkana
• Covenant Medical Center in Lubbock
• Doctors Hospital at Renaissance in Edinburg

The hospitals that made the 2018-19 honor roll are:

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. (1)
Cleveland Clinic (2)
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore (3)
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (4)
University of Michigan Hospitals-Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor (5)
UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco (6)
UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles (7)
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles (8)
Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Stanford, Calif. (9)
New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, N.Y. (10)
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis (11)
Mayo Clinic Phoenix (11)
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago (13)
Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia (14)
NYU Langone Hospitals, New York (15)
UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, Pittsburgh (15)
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tenn. (17)
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York (18)
Duke University Hospital, Durham, N.C. (19)
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston (20)

You can see the full rankings here.

U.S. News uses two methodologies, one for procedures and conditions ratings and another for specialty rankings. The rankings are produced by U.S. News with research organization, RTI International. U.S. News says its methodologies in most areas of care are based largely or entirely on objective measures like risk-adjusted survival and readmission rates, volume, patient experience, patient safety and quality of nursing. (You can read more about the methodology here. )

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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