Texas Children’s Hospital named best hospital for pediatric cardiology, heart surgery
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Texas Children’s Hospital was named the top hospital for pediatric cardiology and heart surgery in the 2022 to 2023 rankings by U.S. News & World Report for the sixth consecutive year.
Boston Children’s Hospital, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, MUSC Children’s Heart Network of South Carolina and New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell rounded out the top five of the pediatric cardiology rankings. Texas Children's Hospital is also ranked No. 2 on the Best Children's Honor Roll and is nationally ranked in 10 pediatric specialties.
“This is huge honor for us. It shows we are one of the elite programs in the country,” Daniel J. Penny, MD, PhD, chief of pediatric cardiology at Texas Children’s Hospital, told Healio. “It reflects our philosophy here — no matter where we are in rankings, we are always improving. Yesterday we celebrated, and today, we are back at work, trying to get better.”
In an interview, Penny said the hospital’s multidisciplinary team is now unified under the Texas Children’s Heart Center.
“It’s a true, single-focused heart center with hundreds of people, working hard to make sure we are all focused on the same goal, which is doing a better job at looking out for children and their families,” Penny said.
Fifty centers were ranked in pediatric cardiology care, according to a press release from U.S. News. Survival after complex heart surgery, such as heart transplants and corrective surgery for congenital heart defects, specialized staff, services and technologies, commitment to best practices and ability to prevent infections accounted for most of each hospital's score.
“Choosing the right hospital for a sick child is a critical decision for many parents. The Best Children’s Hospitals rankings spotlight hospitals that excel in specialized care, offering parents and their pediatricians a helpful starting point in choosing the facility that’s best for their child,” Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor at U.S. News, said in the release. “Recognizing that hospitals with inclusive and equitable cultures perform better, this year we added a new measure assessing hospitals’ efforts to improve the equity of care provided and to promote diversity and inclusion among clinicians and staff.”
The 2022-2023 rankings highlight the top 50 centers in each of these 10 pediatric specialties: cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery, neonatology, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology and lung surgery, and urology. For the second year, the Best Children’s Hospitals rankings feature expanded offerings that include state rankings and multistate regional rankings.
The Best Children's Hospitals methodology factors objective measures such as patient outcomes, including mortality and infection rates, as well as health equity and available clinical resources and compliance with best practices. To calculate the Best Children’s Hospitals rankings, U.S. News gathered relevant data from children’s hospitals, pediatric specialists and other healthcare organizations in early 2022.
RTI International, a North Carolina-based research and consulting firm, collected and analyzed data from 119 children’s hospitals and surveyed thousands of pediatric specialists. More than 100 pediatric specialists and other experts provided input through methodology working groups.
To see the complete 2022 to 2023 rankings and methodologies, go to health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/pediatric-rankings/cardiology-and-heart-surgery.
Data reprinted with permission from U.S. News & World Report.
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