The Children’s Hospital has been ranked fourth in U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Children’s Hospitals” issue, hospital officials said Thursday.
This year’s placement is a significant leap from the hospital’s seventh place ranking last year. The issue, which hits newstands on Monday, features a detailed ranking of the finest pediatric facilities in the United States.
Children’s Hospital has been ranked nationally by the magazine every year since 1993, officials said.
While U.S. News’s previous pediatric hospital rankings were based on reputation alone, this year’s expanded issue is based on new methodology that weighed a three-part mix of reputation, death rate and such care-related factors as volume, nursing care, advanced technology and recognition by outside organizations.
Children’s has been noted for leading programs in liver transplants, oncology, eating disorders, heart programs and rural outreach to prevent childhood injuries.
The Children’s Hospital finished behind pediatric hospitals in Philidelphia, Boston and Baltimore.
