Vanderbilt University Medical Center is once again named to the Honor Roll for demonstrating exceptional breadth of excellence across clinical specialties.
Washington, D.C. – August 1, 2023 – U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in hospital rankings and consumer advice, has announced the 2023-2024 Best Hospitals rankings.
Now in its 34th year, Best Hospitals evaluates hospitals in more than 30 medical and surgical services, with the objective of providing patients with data-driven decision tools. To keep pace with consumers' needs and the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, several refinements are reflected in the 2023-2024 Best Hospitals rankings and ratings. These 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. Hospital profiles on USNews.com feature refined health equity measures, including a new measure of racial disparities in outcomes.
The 2023-2024 rankings highlight 484 Best Regional Hospitals that deliver high-quality treatment across many areas of care. Of those, 22 hospitals are named to our national Honor Roll for demonstrating exceptional breadth of excellence across clinical specialties. Once again Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, has been named to the 2023-2024 U.S. News Best Hospitals Honor Roll, with rankings in nine of the 15 adult specialties and high-performing ratings in 19 of the 21 procedures and conditions.
These medical centers, listed in alphabetical order, are among the best of the Best Hospitals:
- Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis.
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston.
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.
- Cleveland Clinic.
- Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia.
- Houston Methodist Hospital.
- Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
- Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
- Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City.
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, New York City.
- North Shore University Hospital at Northwell Health, Manhasset, New York.
- Northwestern Medicine-Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago.
- NYU Langone Hospitals, New York City.
- Rush University Medical Center, Chicago.
- Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Stanford, California.
- UC San Diego Health-La Jolla and Hillcrest Hospitals, San Diego.
- UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles.
- UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco.
- University of Michigan Health-Ann Arbor.
- UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville.
“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,” said Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor at U.S. News. “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.”
“Helping consumers make decisions that are based on facts and driven by data is the cornerstone of our mission,” Executive Chairman and CEO Eric Gertler added. “Our Health team, consisting of dedicated journalists and data analysts, has decades of experience supporting patients on their healthcare journey through the ‘Best Hospitals' rankings and the deep reporting they do for the many stories that accompany these rankings. With unwavering commitment, we strive to help patients, caregivers and their communities.”
More rankings on individual specialties can be found at:
https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/rankings?src=usn_pr