America's Best Children's Hospitals 2023

When your child is sick or hurt, you want nothing more than to make them well again. Sometimes that means a bandage and a kiss—other times, it means a visit to the pediatrician, emergency room, specialists, or even a stay in the hospital. Fortunately, every single day hundreds of thousands of doctors, nurses and other health care professionals make their way through the doors of pediatric hospitals across the country, where they perform what many parents would regard as nothing short of miracles.

Newsweek and the global market research and consumer data firm Statista are proud to announce our ranking of America's Best Children's Hospitals 2023. Our list names the leading hospitals for pediatric care in the United States in seven fields: Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Surgery, Neonatology, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Oncology and Hematology, and Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery. Results were compiled, and awards were presented based on three data sources—a nationwide online survey, ospital quality metrics and patient experience.

We extend a heartfelt thank you to the teams who make these the best children's hospitals in America.

Rank	Facility	City	State
1	Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	Philadelphia	PA
2	Ann & Robert H. Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago	Chicago	IL
3	Boston Children's Hospital	Boston	MA
4	Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center	Cincinnati	OH
5	UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh	PA
6	Cleveland Clinic Children's	Cleveland	OH
7	Children's Hospital Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora	Aurora	CO
8	Texas Children's Hospital	Houston	TX
9	Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford	Palo Alto	CA
10	Nationwide Children's Hospital	Columbus	OH
11	University of Chicago - Comer Children's Hospital	Chicago	IL
12	Mayo Clinic Children's Center	Rochester	MN
13	University of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children's Hospital	Ann Arbor	MI
14	Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center	Durham	NC
15	Children's National Hospital	Washington	DC
16	Children's Hospital of Michigan	Detroit	MI
17	Johns Hopkins Children's Center	Baltimore	MD
18	Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida	Orlando	FL
19	Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware	Wilmington	DE
20	New York-Presbyterian - Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital	New York	NY
21	Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego	San Diego	CA
22	Children's Hospital of Wisconsin	Milwaukee	WI
23	Children's Hospital Los Angeles	Los Angeles	CA
24	UNC Children's Hospitals	Chapel Hill	NC
25	St. Louis Children's Hospital - Washington University	Saint Louis	MO
26	Arkansas Children's Hospital	Little Rock	AR
27	Phoenix Children's Hospital	Phoenix	AZ
28	Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt	Nashville	TN
29	Orlando Health - Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children	Orlando	FL
30	Hassenfeld Children's Hospital at NYU Langone	New York	NY
31	Children's Mercy Kansas City Hospital	Kansas City	MO
32	MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital	Charleston	SC
33	Massachusetts General Hospital	Boston	MA
34	Seattle Children's Hospital	Seattle	WA
35	Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital	Saint Petersburg	FL
36	American Family Children's Hospital	Madison	WI
37	Riley Children's Health - Indiana University Health	Indianapolis	IN
38	UC Davis Children's Hospital	Sacramento	CA
39	UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals, San Francisco and Oakland	San Francisco	CA
40	Children’s Minnesota – Minneapolis Hospital	Minneapolis	MN
41	Akron Children's Hospital	Akron	OH
42	Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital	New York	NY
43	Le Bonheur Children's Hospital	Memphis	TN
44	UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital	Los Angeles	CA
45	Children's Hospital of Alabama	Birmingham	AL
46	Kentucky Children's Hospital	Lexington	KY
47	Loyola University Medical Center	Maywood	IL
48	Children's Hospital & Medical Center	Omaha	NE
49	Advocate Children's Hospital	Oak Lawn	IL
50	Levine Children's Hospital	Charlotte	NC

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The America's Best Children's Hospitals 2023 ranking awards the leading Children's hospitals in 7 pediatric fields: Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology & Gastrointestinal Surgery, Neonatology, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Oncology & Hematology, and Pulmonology & Thoracic Surgery. The list lengths vary across fields: the top 50 hospitals are recognized for Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery, Endocrinology Gastroenterology & Gastrointestinal Surgery, Neonatology, and Oncology & Hematology. The top 40 hospitals are recognized for Pulmonology & Thoracic Surgery, and the top 25 hospitals are recognized for Neurology & Neurosurgery.

The list is based on three data sources:

1. Nationwide online survey
From April to May 2023 over 2,000 health care professionals and hospital managers with knowledge about pediatric care e.g., general and specialized pediatricians and nurses were asked to recommend leading children's hospitals in the US. Participants were asked to recommend hospitals in their primary sub-specialty as well as a secondary sub-specialty. Primary recommendations had a 70% weight of the reputation score, secondary recommendations had a weight of 30% of the reputation score.
The reputation score has a weight of 63.75% of the overall score.

2. Results from patient surveys
Google evaluations were taken into consideration for the patient experience score with a weight of 7.5% of the overall score.

If a hospital reported the HCAHPS survey to CMS, the patient experience score is reweighted to 15% of the total score. HCAHPS survey topics included: cleanliness of the hospital, communication of the nurses/doctors, care transition, communication about medicines, discharge information, quietness, and staff responsiveness.

3. Hospital quality metrics
These are publicly available data from a variety of sources on indicators relevant to pediatric care. Data on infection prevention, as well as vaccination rates of staff for Influenza and COVID-19, and patient satisfaction was available from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. From The Joint Commission, an independent, nonprofit hospital accreditation organization, data were available for hospital accreditations, national patient safety goals, and the advanced certifications. Accreditation data was also available from CARF International (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) and from the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT).

These data were used to determine the quality metrics score, which has a weight of 28.75% of 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 May 23, 2022 – May 22, 2023 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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