Thursday, June 5, 2008

2008 "Best Children's Hospitals" Listed




Here is the magazine's list of the best children's hospitals for general pediatrics:

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Children's Hospital Boston
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Johns Hopkins Children's Center (Baltimore)
Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital (Cleveland)
Texas Children's Hospital (Houston)
Children's Hospital Denver
Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center (Seattle)
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
New York-Presbyterian Medical Center (New York)
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford (Palo Alto, Calif.)
Children's National Medical Center (Washington, D.C.)
Children's Hospital Cleveland Clinic
Nationwide Children's Hospital (Columbus, Ohio)
Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA (Los Angeles)
St. Louis Children's Hospital
Children's Memorial Hospital (Chicago)
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
UCSF Children's Hospital (San Francisco)
Massachusetts General Hospital for Children (Boston)
Primary Children's Medical Center (Salt Lake City)
Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt (Nashville)
Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock
Children's Medical Center Dallas
C.S. Mott Children's Hospital (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Duke Children's Hospital and Health Center (Durham, N.C.)
Children's Hospital at Montefiore (Bronx, N.Y.)
Schneider Children's Hospital, North Shore-LIJ Health System (New Hyde Park, N.Y.)
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin (Milwaukee)
The top two hospitals on this year's list held the same spots on last year's list

The rankings are based on reputation, inpatient death rate for heart and neurology patients, and care-related measures, including nurse staffing, technology availability, and patient volume.

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