Magazine Ranks Best Children's Hospitals

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Leads List of 30 Best Children's Hospitals

By Miranda Hitti
WebMD Health News

Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD

Aug. 27, 2007 -- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is America's best children's hospital, according to U.S. News & World Report's 2007 list of best children's hospitals.

Here is U.S. News & World Report's full list of best children's hospitals:

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Children's Hospital Boston
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
Children's Hospital, Denver
Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland
Texas Children's Hospital, Houston
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell
Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, Calif.
Children's National Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
Columbus Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
St. Louis Children's Hospital
UCSF Children's Hospital, San Francisco
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
Primary Children's Medical Center, Salt Lake City
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis
Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA, Los Angeles
University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville
Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, N.Y.
Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago
Miami Children's Hospital
Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Children's Medical Center Dallas
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

The magazine based its rankings on children's hospitals' death rates, care-related factors including the number of nurses, and the children's hospitals' reputation with 200 board-certified pediatricians, adolescent medicine specialists, and neonatologists.

In July, U.S. News & World Report issued its 2007 list of best U.S. hospitals.

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