Johns Hopkins Hospital ranks top US hospital for psychiatry
Johns Hopkins Hospital has been named the top hospital in the United States for psychiatric care, according to the U.S. News & World Report "Best Hospitals 2020-2021" survey.
The survey analyzed data of more than 4,500 hospitals, of which 134 were nationally ranked in one specialty. A total of 563 were ranked among the "Best Regional Hospitals" in a state or metro area.
Although the data used in this year’s ranking and ratings were drawn from a period predating the COVID-19 pandemic and thus did not alter them, U.S. News did highlight the pandemic’s impact on the country’s health care system.
“The pandemic has altered, perhaps permanently, how patients get care and from whom they get it,” Ben Harder, managing editor and chief of health analysis at U.S. News, said in a press release. “Amid the disruption, we are steadfastly committed to providing the public with authoritative data for comparing hospital quality. No hospital’s clinical team came through this unprecedented health crisis unscathed.”
U.S. News “Best Hospitals” methodologies include objective measures, such as risk-adjusted survival and discharge-to-home rates, volume and quality of nursing, as well as other indicators associated with care.
For adult psychiatric care, the 11 top-ranking hospitals are:
1. Johns Hopkins Hospital
2. Mclean Hospital
3. Massachusetts General Hospital
4. New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell
5. Mayo Clinic
5. Sheppard Pratt Hospital
7. Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA
8. UCSF Medical Center
9. Menninger Clinic
10. Yale-New Haven Hospital
11. NYU Langone Hospitals
To see the complete 2020-2021 rankings and methodologies, go to https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/rankings.
Editor's Note: This article was updated on July 29, 2020, to correct a mistaken listing of Massachusetts General Hospital as the top ranking, and on July 30,2020, to reflect Sheppard Pratt Hospital and Mayo Clinic being tied for the fifth ranking. The editors regret the errors.