America's Best Hospitals
2004 edition

THE OVERALL RANKINGS

CANCER: (1) University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston; (2) Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York; (3) JHH; (4) Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston; (5) Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; (6) Duke University Medical Center; Durham, N.C.; (7) University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor; (8) UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles; (9) University of California, San Francisco Medical Center; (10) University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle.

DIGESTIVE DISORDERS: (1) Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; (2) Cleveland Clinic; (3) JHH; (4) Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; (5) Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York; (6) UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles; (7) University of Chicago Hospitals;
(8) Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.; (9) University of California, San Francisco Medical Center; (10) University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle.

EAR, NOSE and THROAT: (1) JHH; (2) University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City; (3) Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston; (4) Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; (5) University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor; (6) University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; (7) UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles; (8) Cleveland Clinic; (9) Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis; (10) University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.

GERIATRICS: (1) UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles; (2) JHH; (3) Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York; (4) Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.; (5) Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; (6) Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn.; (7) Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; (8) University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor; (9) St. Louis University Hospital; (10) University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle.

GYNECOLOGY: (1) JHH; (2) Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; (3) Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston; (4) Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; (5) University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston; (6) Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.; (7) UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles; (8) Cleveland Clinic; (9) New York-Presbyterian Hospital; (10) Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

HEART AND HEART SURGERY: (1) Cleveland Clinic; (2) Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; (3) Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.; (4) JHH; (5) Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; (6) Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston; (7) New York-Presbyterian Hospital; (8) Emory University Hospital, Atlanta; (9) Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Houston; (10) Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, Calif.

HORMONAL DISORDERS: (1) Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; (2) Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; (3) JHH; (4) University of California, San Francisco Medical Center; (5) University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville; (6) Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis; (7) University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle; (8) Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston; (9) UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles; (10) Cleveland Clinic.

KIDNEY DISEASE: (1) Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston; (2) JHH; (3) Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; (4) Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; (5) Cleveland Clinic; (6) New York-Presbyterian Hospital; (7) Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis (8) Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville; (9) Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.; (10) UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles.

NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY: (1) Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; (2) JHH; (3) Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; (4) New York-Presbyterian Hospital; (5) University of California, San Francisco Medical Center; (6) Cleveland Clinic; (7) Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis; (8) UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles; (9) St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix; (10) Methodist Hospital, Houston.

ORTHOPEDICS: (1) Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; (2) Hospital for Special Surgery, New York; (3) Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; (4) JHH; (5) Cleveland Clinic; (6) University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City; (7) UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles; (8) Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.; (9) University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle; (10) Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, Chicago.

OPHTHALMOLOGY: (1) Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami; (2) JHH (Wilmer Eye Institute); (3) Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia; (4) Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston; (5) UCLA Medical Center (Jules Stein Eye Institute), Los Angeles; (6) University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City; (7) USC University Hospital (Doheny Eye Institute), Los Angeles; (8) Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.; (9) Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis; (10) Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

PEDIATRICS: (1) Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; (2) Children’s Hospital Boston; (3) JHH; (4) Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston; (5) Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian; (6) Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Cleveland; (7) Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati; (8) Children’s Hospital, Denver; (9) Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago; (10) Children’s National Medical Center, Washington D.C.

PSYCHIATRY: (1) Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; (2) New York-Presbyterian Hospital; (3) JHH; (4) McLean Hospital, Belmont, Mass.; (5) UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Los Angeles; (6) The Menninger Clinic, Houston; (7) Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn.; (8) Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, Calif.; (9) University of Pittsburg Medical Center; (10) Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

REHABILITATION: (1) Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago; (2) University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle; (3) TIRR-The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research, Houston; (4) Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, West Orange, N.J.; (5) Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; (6) Craig Hospital, Englewood, Colo.; (7) Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus; (8) Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston; (9) Rusk Institute, NYU Medical Center, New York; (10) Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, Downey, Calif.; (11) Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia; (12) University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor; (13) JHH.

RESPIRATORY DISORDERS: (1) National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver; (2) Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; (3) JHH; (4) Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; (5) University of California, San Francisco Medical Center; (6) Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis; (7) Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.; (8) UCSD Medical Center, San Diego; (9) University of Colorado Hospital, Denver; (10) University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor.

RHEUMATOLOGY: (1) Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; (2) JHH; (3) Cleveland Clinic; (3) Hospital for Special Surgery, New York; (5) UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles; (6) University of Alabama Hospital at Birmingham; (7) Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; (8) Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston; (9) Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.; (10) University of California, San Francisco Medical Center.

UROLOGY: (1) JHH; (2) Cleveland Clinic; (3) Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; (4) UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles; (5) Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis; (6) New York-Presbyterian Hospital; (7) Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.; (8) Massachusettes General Hospital, Boston; (9) Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York; (10) University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.