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U.S. News & World Report ranks Boston Children’s Hospital number 1 pediatric hospital for nephrology
U.S. News & World Report has ranked Boston Children’s Hospital number one among pediatric hospitals for nephrology. The magazine ranked the top pediatric hospitals for nephrology for 2016–2017 using data on survival following kidney transplant, biopsy complications and overall infection prevention.
The rankings are based on clinical data obtained from 183 pediatric centers and on the opinions of nearly 11,000 surveyed pediatric specialists and subspecialists. RTI International, a North Carolina-based research and consulting firm, directed the data collection with the help of more than 100 medical directors, pediatric specialists and other experts, and analyzed the results. Boston Children’s Hospital has been ranked number one for pediatric nephrology seven years in a row. The hospital ranked number one in eight out of 10 specialties
The top 50 hospitals for pediatric nephrology are listed below:
- Boston Children's Hospital
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
- Texas Children's Hospital, Houston
- Seattle Children's Hospital
- Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, Palo Alto, Calif.
- Children's Mercy Kansas City, Mo.
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA, Los Angeles
- Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
- Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
- Children's Medical Center Dallas
- Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio
- Children's National Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
- Johns Hopkins Children's Center, Baltimore
- Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
- UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals, San Francisco and Oakland
- Children's Hospital at Montefiore, New York
- Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- Phoenix Children's Hospital
- Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego
- Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland
- Medical University of South Carolina Children's Hospital, Charleston
- University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor
- Children's Hospital Los Angeles
- American Family Children's Hospital, Madison, Wis.
- University of Iowa Children's Hospital, Iowa City
- Doernbecher Children's Hospital at Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Ore.
- Children's Hospital of Alabama at UAB, Birmingham
- Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital, New York
- Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville
- Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis
- UF Health Shands Children's Hospital, Gainesville, Fla.
- Nemours Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Del.
- Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Indianapolis
- Louis Children's Hospital-Washington University
- Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora
- Duke Children's Hospital and Health Center, Durham, N.C.
- Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital
- Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston
- Levine Children's Hospital, Charlotte, N.C.
- University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital, Minneapolis
- Primary Children's Hospital, Salt Lake City
- University of California Davis Children's Hospital, Sacramento
- North Carolina Children's Hospital at UNC, Chapel Hill
- Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit
- Holtz Children's Hospital at UM-Jackson Memorial Medical Center, Miami
- New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley-Komansky Children's Hospital
- Spectrum Health Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, Grand Rapids, Mich.
- University of Virginia Children's Hospital, Charlottesville
- MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston