Mayo Clinic ranked No. 1 in US for pulmonology and lung surgery

The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, was ranked No. 1 on U.S. News & World Report’s list of Best Hospitals for pulmonology and lung surgery.

These 2022-2023 rankings compared more than 4,500 hospitals across 15 specialties and 20 procedures and conditions.

The top-ranked hospitals for pulmonology and lung surgery in the 2022-2023 report are:

1. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota;
2. National Jewish Health, Denver-University of Colorado Hospital;
3. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center;
4. NYU Langone Hospitals; and
5. UCLA Medical Center.

The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, was also ranked No. 1 in the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals Honor Roll for the seventh consecutive year, followed by:

• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center;
• NYU Langone Hospitals;
• Cleveland Clinic;
• Johns Hopkins Hospital;
• UCLA Medical Center;
• New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell;
• Massachusetts General Hospital; and
• Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

The Best Hospital rankings take into account a hospital’s ability to develop and sustain systems delivering high-quality care and patient experience. These rankings focus on survival rates, complication rates, patient experience, level of nursing care and how successfully each hospital helps patients be discharged home.

New to the 2022-2023 ranking, U.S. News & World Report included three new Best Hospitals categories: ovarian cancer surgery, prostate cancer surgery and uterine cancer surgery. “Home time” was also introduced as a patient-centered metric in certain Procedures and Conditions ratings, according to a press release.

“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 & World Report, said in the press 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.”

A complete list of the national rankings can be found at https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/rankings?src=usn_pr.

Reference:

• Best Hospitals by Specialty: National Rankings. https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/rankings . Published July 26, 2022. Accessed July 26, 2022.