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

Key takeaways:

• Mayo Clinic was the top-ranked hospital for pulmonology and lung surgery for 2023-2024.
• All five of the top pulmonology and lung surgery hospitals were also on the Best Hospitals Honor Roll.

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

The 2023-2024 rankings compared more than 4,500 hospitals across 15 specialties and 21 procedures and conditions, according to Insights into the 2023-2024 Best Hospitals Rankings press release.

The top-ranked hospitals for pulmonology and lung surgery in the 2023-2024 report are:

1. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota;
2. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center;
3. NYU Langone Hospitals;
4. UCLA Medical Center; and
5. Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian.

Each of these hospitals also made the 2023-2024 Best Hospitals Honor Roll, which included 22 hospitals that ranked highly across several specialties this year.

Notable new additions to the 2023-2024 ranking include “the introduction of outpatient outcomes in key specialty rankings and surgical ratings, the expanded inclusion of other outpatient data, an increased weight on objective quality measures, a reduced weight on expert opinion and more,” according to the press release.

“A recent survey of U.S. News users revealed more than four in five (84%) consider a hospital’s quality metrics to be important factors when deciding where to seek treatment for a serious medical issue,” Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor at U.S. News & World Report, said in the press release. “Consumers want useful resources to help them assess which hospital can best meet their specific care needs. The 2023-2024 Best Hospitals rankings offer patients and the physicians with whom they consult a data-driven source for comparing performance in outcomes, patient satisfaction and other metrics that matter to them.”

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?src=usn_pr. Published Aug. 1, 2023. Accessed Aug. 1, 2023.