Mayo Clinic ranked best hospital for seventh year running

The Mayo Clinic has been ranked the No. 1 hospital in the United States for the seventh consecutive year by U.S. News and World Report.

“To be named on U.S. News & World Report ‘Best Hospitals’ is an incredible testament to our staff’s hard work, dedication and perseverance during two and a half years of extraordinary challenges,” Prathibha Varkey, MBBS, president of the Mayo Clinic Health System, said in a press release. “This is a well-deserved recognition of their unwavering commitment to providing high-quality and safe care across Mayo Clinic Health System.”

The honor roll list, which is designed to help patients and their physicians make informed decisions about where to receive quality care, recognizes the top 20 institutions that deliver “exceptional treatment across many areas of care,” according to U.S. News. The list for 2022 to 2023 is as follows:

1. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
2. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
3. NYU Langone Hospitals, New York
4. Cleveland Clinic
5. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore and UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles (tie)
7. New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, N.Y.
8. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
9. Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
10. Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Palo Alto, California
11. Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis
12. UCSF Medical Center, St. Louis
13. Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia
14. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
15. Houston Methodist Hospital
16. Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
17. University of Michigan Health - Ann Arbor
18. Mayo Clinic — Phoenix
19. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
20. Rush University Medical Center, Chicago

Additionally, the top-ranked institutions on this years’ specialty list were:

• University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, best hospital for cancer;
• Cleveland Clinic, best hospital for cardiology and heart surgery;
• Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, best hospital for diabetes and endocrinology;
• Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Palo Alto, California, best hospital for ear, nose and throat;
• Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, best hospital for gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery;
• Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, best hospital for geriatrics;
• NYU Langone Hospitals, New York, best hospital for neurology and neurosurgery;
• Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, best hospital for obstetrics and gynecology;
• Bascom Palmer Eye Institute-University of Miami Hospital and Clinics, best hospitals for ophthalmology;
• Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, best hospital for orthopedics;
• McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, best hospital for psychiatry;
• Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, best hospital for pulmonology and lung cancer surgery;
• Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, best hospital for rehabilitation;
• Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, best hospital for rheumatology; and
• Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, best hospital for urology.

The data used in this year’s rankings excluded visits in which patients were diagnosed with COVID-19 and visits for months in 2020, in which the hospital’s COVID-19 rate was higher than the national average, in an effort to mitigate the pandemic-associated disruptions in the analysis, according to a methodology report.

This is the first year with COVID-19 data, but it was not the only new addition to the report. Also new this year was “an expanded set of health equity measures that highlights which hospitals provide more care to low-income patients and which have racial disparities in certain surgical outcomes” and ratings for three new specialties: ovarian cancer surgery, uterine cancer surgery and prostate cancer surgery, according to U.S. News.

“For patients considering their options for where to get care, the Best Hospitals rankings are designed to help them and their medical professionals identify hospitals that excel in the kind of care they may need,” Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor at U.S. News, said in the release. “The new cancer ratings provide patients facing surgery for prostate cancer or gynecological cancer with previously unavailable information to assist them in making a critical health care decision.”

References:

• Best hospitals by specialty. https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/rankings?src=usn_pr. Accessed July 26, 2022.
• U.S. News & World Report recognizes 6 Mayo Clinic Health System hospitals. https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/press-room/us-news-awards. Accessed July 26, 2022.
• U.S. News releases 2022-23 best hospitals rankings. https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/rankings?src=usn_pr. Accessed July 26, 2022.