America's Best Cancer Hospitals 2024

America's Best Cancer Hospitals 2024

There are few diagnoses that cause more fear than cancer. Advances in treating the various forms of the disease, though, are constantly being uncovered, and state-of-the-art cancer hospitals save patients' lives every year.

It's a significant challenge. Market research firm Statista has reported that a man born in the U.S. has a 41 percent chance of developing invasive cancer, while an American woman has a 39 percent chance in her lifetime. In 2023, there were an estimated 2 million new cases of cancer and 609,000 cancer-related deaths.

To help patients find the best cancer-focused medical facilities in the country, Newsweek is partnering with Statista for the second annual ranking of America's Best Cancer Hospitals. The list is compiled via data from four sources: a nationwide online survey of oncology professionals, hospital quality metrics, results from patient experience surveys and a consideration of whether the hospitals use patient-reported questionnaires (called PROMs) to optimize care.

After analysis, the top 200 leading hospitals in oncology were ranked.

While a diagnosis of a serious illness is alarming, having access to the country's best cancer treatment facilities offers hope. This ranking aims to highlight the hospitals best equipped to provide a healthy, happy outcome.

Rank	Hospital Name	City	State	Notable Treatment	PROMs survey
1	MD Anderson Cancer Center	Houston	Texas	Lung cancer, Colon & rectal cancer, Leukemia, Prostate cancer, Breast cancer, Cervical cancer
2	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	New York	New York	Lung cancer, Colon & rectal cancer, Leukemia, Prostate cancer, Breast cancer, Cervical cancer
3	Mayo Clinic - Rochester	Rochester	Minnesota	Lung cancer, Colon & rectal cancer, Leukemia, Prostate cancer, Breast cancer, Cervical cancer
4	The Johns Hopkins Hospital	Baltimore	Maryland	Lung cancer, Colon & rectal cancer, Leukemia, Prostate cancer, Breast cancer
5	Cleveland Clinic	Cleveland	Ohio	Lung cancer, Colon & rectal cancer, Leukemia, Prostate cancer, Breast cancer
6	Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center	Boston	Massachusetts	Lung cancer, Colon & rectal cancer, Leukemia, Prostate cancer, Breast cancer
7	Massachusetts General Hospital	Boston	Massachusetts	Lung cancer
8	UCSF Medical Center	San Francisco	California	Lung cancer, Colon & rectal cancer
9	Stanford Health Care - Stanford Hospital	Stanford	California	Lung cancer, Leukemia
10	Barnes-Jewish Hospital	Saint Louis	Missouri	Breast cancer
11	H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute	Tampa	Florida	Lung cancer, Colon & rectal cancer, Cervical cancer
12	Mayo Clinic - Phoenix	Phoenix	Arizona	Lung cancer
13	Duke University Hospital	Durham	North Carolina	Lung cancer, Breast cancer
14	UCLA Health - Ronald Reagan Medical Center	Los Angeles	California	Lung cancer, Colon & rectal cancer, Leukemia, Prostate cancer, Breast cancer
15	NYU Langone Hospitals / Perlmutter Cancer Center	New York	New York
16	University of Michigan Health	Ann Arbor	Michigan	Breast cancer
17	Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania - Penn Presbyterian	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	Lung cancer, Colon & rectal cancer, Leukemia, Breast cancer
18	Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Nashville	Tennessee	Lung cancer, Breast cancer
19	University of Chicago Medical Center	Chicago	Illinois	Lung cancer, Breast cancer
20	City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center	Duarte	California	Leukemia
21	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	Los Angeles	California
22	University of Washington Medical Center / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center	Seattle	Washington	Lung cancer, Leukemia, Breast cancer
23	Mayo Clinic - Jacksonville	Jacksonville	Florida
24	Northwestern Memorial Hospital	Chicago	Illinois	Lung cancer, Breast cancer
25	New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell	New York	New York
26	University of Maryland Medical Center	Baltimore	Maryland
27	UW Health | Carbone Cancer Center	Madison	Wisconsin
28	Emory University Hospital	Atlanta	Georgia
29	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	Boston	Massachusetts
30	Baylor University Medical Center	Dallas	Texas
31	Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center	Baltimore	Maryland
32	USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center	Los Angeles	California
33	Ohio State University - The James Comprehensive Cancer Cener	Columbus	Ohio
34	UT Southwestern Medical Center	Dallas	Texas	Breast cancer
35	Mayo Clinic - Health System in Eau Claire	Eau Claire	Wisconsin
36	University of Colorado Hospital	Aurora	Colorado	Colon & rectal cancer
37	UNC Medical Center	Chapel Hill	North Carolina
38	University of Kentucky - Albert B. Chandler Hospital	Lexington	Kentucky	Lung cancer, Breast cancer
39	Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital	Boston	Massachusetts
40	University of Kansas Hospital	Kansas City	Kansas
41	Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla	La Jolla	California
42	Houston Methodist Hospital	Houston	Texas
43	The Mount Sinai Hospital	New York	New York
44	University of Virginia Medical Center	Charlottesville	Virginia
45	MedStar Georgetown University Hospital	Washington	Washington, D.C.
46	Yale New Haven Hospital	New Haven	Connecticut	Lung cancer, Colon & rectal cancer
47	Inova Fairfax Hospital	Falls Church	Virginia
48	Memorial Hermann - Memorial City Medical Center	Houston	Texas
49	UCLA Health - Santa Monica Medical Center	Santa Monica	California
50	Tufts Medical Center	Boston	Massachusetts
51	Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health	San Diego	California	Breast cancer
52	Jefferson Health - Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
53	The Jewish Hospital - Mercy Health	Cincinnati	Ohio
54	OHSU Hospital	Portland	Oregon
55	Swedish Medical Center	Seattle	Washington
56	Rush University Medical Center	Chicago	Illinois
57	Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah	Salt Lake City	Utah
58	University of California - Davis Medical Center	Sacramento	California
59	Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Temple	Temple	Texas
60	Emory University Hospital Midtown	Atlanta	Georgia
61	Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center	Houston	Texas
62	UF Health Shands Hospital	Gainesville	Florida
63	Morristown Medical Center	Morristown	New Jersey
64	Abbott Northwestern Hospital	Minneapolis	Minnesota
65	Karmanos Cancer Center	Detroit	Michigan
66	Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center	Los Angeles	California
67	M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center	Minneapolis	Minnesota	Leukemia
68	Hackensack Meridian John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center	Hackensack	New Jersey
69	Virginia Mason Medical Center	Seattle	Washington
70	Temple University - Fox Chase Cancer Center	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	Lung cancer, Colon & rectal cancer, Breast cancer
71	University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center	Cleveland	Ohio
72	Providence St. Jude Medical Center	Fullerton	California
73	University of Cincinnati Medical Center	Cincinnati	Ohio
74	LDS Hospital	Salt Lake City	Utah
75	UPMC Presbyterian & Shadyside	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania
76	Duke Regional Hospital	Durham	North Carolina
77	University of Miami - Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center	Miami	Florida
78	Froedtert Hospital and the Medical College of Wisconsin	Milwaukee	Wisconsin
79	Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center	Buffalo	New York
80	University of Tennessee Medical Center	Knoxville	Tennessee
81	Intermountain Medical Center	Murray	Utah
82	Montefiore Medical Center	Bronx	New York
83	UAB Hospital	Birmingham	Alabama
84	Long Island Jewish Medical Center	New Hyde Park	New York
85	Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Plano	Plano	Texas
86	Cleveland Clinic - Hillcrest Hospital	Mayfield Heights	Ohio
87	Geisinger Medical Center	Danville	Pennsylvania
88	Sanford USD Medical Center	Sioux Falls	South Dakota
89	UCI Medical Center	Orange	California	Colon & rectal cancer
90	Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas	Austin	Texas
91	Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center	Lebanon	New Hampshire
92	Cleveland Clinic - Fairview Hospital	Cleveland	Ohio
93	UCHealth - Medical Center of The Rockies	Loveland	Colorado
94	Henry Ford Hospital	Detroit	Michigan	Lung cancer
95	Corewell Health Butterworth Hospital	Grand Rapids	Michigan
96	Lenox Hill Hospital at Northwell Health	New York	New York
97	University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics	Iowa City	Iowa
98	Memorial Hermann - Texas Medical Center	Houston	Texas
99	UPMC Magee - Womens Hospital	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania
100	University Health System	San Antonio	Texas
101	Newton-Wellesley Hospital	Newton	Massachusetts
102	Mount Sinai Beth Israel	New York	New York
103	Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital	West Bloomfield	Michigan
104	St. Tammany Parish Hospital	Covington	Louisiana
105	Cleveland Clinic - Florida	Weston	Florida
106	Penn State Health - Milton S. Hershey Medical Center	Hershey	Pennsylvania
107	Baptist Hospital of Miami	Miami	Florida
108	Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital	Lake Forest	Illionis
109	Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Round Rock	Round Rock	Texas
110	Woman's Hospital	Baton Rouge	Louisiana
111	Tampa General Hospital	Tampa	Florida
112	Strong Memorial Hospital - University of Rochester	Rochester	New York
113	Cleveland Clinic - Akron General	Akron	Ohio
114	Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital	Atlanta	Georgia
115	Penn Medicine Chester County Hospital	West Chester	Pennsylvania
116	St. Luke's Hospital	Chesterfield	Missouri
117	Nebraska Medicine - Nebraska Medical Center	Omaha	Nebraska
118	UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital	Fort Collins	Colorado
119	St. Luke's Hospital of Kansas City	Kansas City	Missouri
120	Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital	Charleston	South Carolina
121	Pennsylvania Hospital	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
122	MUSC Health - University Medical Center	Charleston	South Carolina
123	Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center	Santa Clara	California
124	Northwestern Medicine - Delnor Hospital	Geneva	Illionis
125	Virginia Hospital Center	Arlington	Virginia
126	Kaiser Permanente San Diego & Zion Medical Center	San Diego	California
127	Missouri Baptist Medical Center	St. Louis	Missouri
128	Utah Valley Hospital	Provo	Utah
129	Queen's Medical Center	Honolulu	Hawaii
130	Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center	Winston-Salem	North Carolina
131	University Medical Center, Lubbock	Lubbock	Texas
132	Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital	Winfield	Illinois
133	St. Luke's University Hospital - Bethlehem Campus	Bethlehem	Pennsylvania
134	Baptist Health Lexington	Lexington	Kentucky
135	South Miami Hospital	South Miami	Florida
136	Morton Plant Hospital	Clearwater	Florida
137	Christ Hospital	Cincinnati	Ohio
138	St. Luke's Boise Medical Center	Boise	Idaho
139	University of Missouri Health Care - Columbia	Columbia	Missouri
140	Our Lady of The Lake Regional Medical Center	Baton Rouge	Louisiana
141	Torrance Memorial Medical Center	Torrance	California
142	Elmhurst Hospital	Elmhurst	Illionis
143	MaineHealth Maine Medical Center Portland	Portland	Maine
144	Inova Alexandria Hospital	Alexandria	Virginia
145	UnityPoint Health - St. Luke's Hospital	Cedar Rapids	Iowa
146	Lahey Hospital and Medical Center	Burlington	Massachusetts
147	Scripps Green Hospital	La Jolla	California
148	Main Line Health - Bryn Mawr Hospital	Bryn Mawr	Pennsylvania
149	Mary Greeley Medical Center	Ames	Iowa
150	Providence St. Vincent Medical Center	Portland	Oregon
151	EvergreenHealth Medical Center	Kirkland	Washington
152	Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian	Newport Beach	California
153	M Health Fairview Southdale Hospital	Edina	Minnesota
154	Mercy Hospital St. Louis	Saint Louis	Missouri
155	Sharp Memorial Hospital	San Diego	California
156	Boston Medical Center	Boston	Massachusetts
157	Huntington Hospital	Pasadena	California
158	AdventHealth Parker	Parker	Colorado
159	ProMedica Toledo Hospital	Toledo	Ohio
160	Rutgers Cancer Institute/Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital	New Brunswick	New Jersey
161	WVU Medicine	Morgantown	West Virginia
162	Saratoga Hospital	Saratoga Springs	New York
163	Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center	Annapolis	Maryland
164	AdventHealth Orlando	Orlando	Florida
165	California Pacific Medical Center	San Francisco	California
166	Chelsea Hospital	Chelsea	Michigan
167	Lancaster General Hospital	Lancaster	Pennsylvania
168	Banner University Medical Center Tucson	Tucson	Arizona
169	Providence St. Patrick Hospital	Missoula	Montana
170	UNC REX Hospital	Raleigh	North Carolina
171	West Penn Hospital	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania
172	Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center	Sioux Falls	South Dakota
173	St. Francis Hospital	Roslyn	New York
174	Banner Gateway Medical Center	Gilbert	Arizona
175	Main Line Health - Lankenau Medical Center	Wynnewood	Pennsylvania
176	John Muir Medical Center - Concord Campus	Concord	California
177	Cone Health Cancer Center at Wesley Long Hospital	Greensboro	North Carolina
178	Aurora Baycare Medical Center	Green Bay	Wisconsin
179	Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth	Fort Worth	Texas
180	Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center	Honolulu	Hawaii
181	Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center	Charlotte	North Carolina
182	Banner University Medical Center Phoenix	Phoenix	Arizona
183	OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center	Oklahoma City	Oklahoma
184	UMass Memorial Medical Center	Worcester	Massachusetts
185	Huntington Hospital	Huntington	New York
186	AdventHealth Porter	Denver	Colorado
187	Northside Hospital Forsyth	Cumming	Georgia
188	VCU Medical Center	Richmond	Virginia
189	North Shore University Hospital	Manhasset	New York
190	Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center	Vancouver	Washington
191	CarolinaEast Medical Center	New Bern	North Carolina
192	Inova Loudoun Hospital	Leesburg	Virginia
193	Main Line Health - Paoli Hospital	Paoli	Pennsylvania
194	Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center	Chula Vista	California
195	Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital	Santa Barbara	California
196	Memorial Hospital West	Pembroke Pines	Florida
197	St. Elizabeth Edgewood Hospital	Edgewood	Kentucky
198	Bronson Methodist Hospital	Kalamazoo	Michigan
199	St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital	Indianapolis	Indiana
200	MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center	Long Beach	California

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Statista and Newsweek have partnered to provide patients and family members with a comprehensive resource to informed decision making in finding the Best Specialized Hospitals in the United States for their specific treatment needs.

The America's Best Specialized Hospitals 2024 ranking awards the 200 leading cancer hospitals, 175 leading cardiac hospitals, 175 neurological hospitals, and the 175 leading orthopedic hospitals in the U.S.

The lists are based on four data sources:

1. Nationwide online survey

From April to May 2024 thousands of health care professionals and hospital managers with knowledge about the respective medical field were asked to recommend the leading specialized hospitals in the U.S. Recommendations for their own employer/ hospital were not allowed.

Participants were asked to rate the recommended cancer hospitals on a scale of 1-10 in the areas of: Social work program / supportive care services, psycho-oncological / psychosocial support, outpatient and inpatient palliative care, multidisciplinary care teams, cancer rehabilitation programs, patient education and counseling, clinical trials and research. For cardiac, neurological, and orthopedic hospitals the participants were asked to rate the following areas: Provision of care and patient safety, patient education and counseling, overall nurse staffing, technical equipment, and (with the exception of orthopedic hospitals) cardiac/neurological rehabilitation.

Additionally, participants could recommend the hospitals for notable treatments, conditions & surgeries which the hospitals offer.

These assessments and the recommendations were used to determine the reputation score, which has a weight of 40% of the overall score.

2. Results from patient surveys

Publicly available data from hospital surveys of patient experience during their hospitalizations. Survey topics included: cleanliness of the hospital, communication of the nurses/doctors, care transition, communication about medicines, discharge information, quietness, and staff responsiveness.

Those data were used to determine the patient experience score, which has a 15% weight of the overall score.

3. Hospital quality metrics

These are publicly available data from a variety of sources on indicators relevant to the respective medical fields. Data on infection prevention, vaccination rates (of staff), timely and effective care as well as on readmissions relevant to the field was available from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Hospitals with a 1-star rating from CMS were not eligible for the ranking. The CMS data accounts for 79.5% of the hospital quality metrics score.

From The Joint Commission, an independent, nonprofit hospital accreditation organization, data were available for hospital accreditations and certifications specific to respective medical fields. For Cancer Hospitals, accreditation from the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT) was taken into consideration as well. The accreditations/certifications accounts for 5.5% of the hospital quality metrics score.

Additionally, the AHA Annual Survey of Hospitals Database has been included in the scoring model. The database contains data provided by more than 6,200 hospitals and 400 health care systems and features over 1,300 hospital data points. For America's Best Specialized Hospitals, structural and organizational data of hospital facilities was used to be included in the hospital quality metrics score. The AHA data accounts for 15% of the hospital quality metrics score. All indicators factored into the scoring models are denoted in the appendix of the respective methodology documents presented in the online publication.

Those data were used to determine the hospital quality metrics score, which has a 41.5% weight of the overall score.

4. PROMs Implementation

A PROMs implementation score has been included in the scoring model of the America's Best Specialized Hospitals project. In the fall and winter of 2023, Newsweek and Statista reached out to hospitals and conducted a voluntary survey about the implementation and use of PROMs.

This year, Statista has partnered with the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM, www.ichom.org) as a knowledge partner. ICHOM is the world's leading non-profit organization dedicated to development of standardized measurement of patient-important outcomes (including PROMs) as a basis for driving value-based health care. ICHOM is contributing to the future development of the PROMs implementation survey, in a manner that can drive not only measurement but use of the data from PROMs (and other patient-important outcomes) to advance value based healthcare.

A grading system for the different questions was built to determine a PROMs implementation score for each participating hospital. Only hospitals which achieved a minimum of 50% (of the maximum 100% score) were eligible to be graded and received a maximum of up to 3.5% towards the overall score.

Disclaimer: The rankings are comprised exclusively of hospitals that are eligible regarding the scope described in this document. The ranking is the result of an elaborate process which, due to the interval of data-collection and analysis, is a reflection of the last 12 months. Furthermore, events preceding or following the period June 19, 2023 – June 19, 2024, and/or pertaining to individual persons affiliated/associated to the facilities were not included in the metrics. As such, the results of this ranking should not be used as the sole source of information for future deliberations.

The information provided in this ranking should be considered in conjunction with other available information about hospitals or, if possible, accompanied by a visit to a facility. The quality of hospitals that are not included in the rankings is not disputed.

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About ICHOM

The International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM, www.ichom.org) is the leading non-profit dedicated to transforming healthcare by focusing on what truly matters to patients. They accomplish this by empowering patient and clinical leaders to standardize important clinical, quality of life, function and experience results for health care, and enabling transparent large-scale use to achieve patient-centric health system transformation. ICHOM's standardized 'sets' of patient-centered outcomes measures help all actors in healthcare design, deliver and evaluate care based on outcomes that matter to patients. To date, ICHOM has developed 45 outcome measure sets for conditions. The sets are available in IT-ready interoperable formats and have been implemented in 500+ care settings in 42+ countries.

Download the full methodology here.