The Best Hospitals 2019-20 Honor Roll

U.S. News & World Report ^ | 30 July 2019

[zeestephen]

Photo gallery plus commentary. Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN) still Number One.

[ml/nj]

Wonder what their criteria is. Sloan Kettering seems to have a pretty good reputation, but doesn't even get a mention?

ML/NJ

[zeestephen]

The criteria for “Best Hospitals” is rank in ALL medical specialties.

Sloan Kettering is Number Two for cancer treatment.

M.D. Anderson in Houston - also not on this list - is Number One in cancer treatment.

Mayo (Rochester) is Top Five in almost every adult illness.

Cleveland Clinic is Number One in Cardiology, but they do make the list for many other specialties, so they do make the Top Twenty.

[Pollster1]

Johns Hopkins is only #3.

I wonder if that is directly because Baltimore is a rat-infested cesspool facing regular arson and riots from thugs, or is it just because the top-tier physicians don’t want to work there (because of the rats and the thugs and the fires).

[zeestephen]

Hopkins Med School catches a huge amount of federal funding because of it’s proximity to Washington D.C. and the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.

[WASCWatch]

Yep. Sloan Kettering and MD Anderson aren’t on this list because they only do cancer research and treatment.

I get my treatment at MD Anderson, but I’d feel just as confident if I was going to Sloan Kettering. I just happen to live 45 minutes from MD Anderson.

A researcher at MD Anderson was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine this year. He pretty much invented the field of immunotherapy for the treatment of cancer.

[Gay State Conservative]

These ratings are only general in nature...a #3 in a particular category doesn't mean that it's inferior to #1.

[FlyFisher]

I’m a big fan of Methodist in Arcadia, CA. Saved me, took great care of me, and your can hardly notice scar down the middle of my chest. The doc was an artist!

Must not have rated because the food is a bit iffy. :)

[Oscar in Batangas]

45 MINUTES???

After my commuting several years to work at the TMC, you must be only about 20 blocks away from MD Anderson, considering typical Houston traffic.

hahaha

[Albion Wilde]

20. (tie) Yale New Haven Hospital
20. (tie) Houston Methodist Hospital
18 (tie). Mayo Clinic-Phoenix
18. (tie) Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian
17. University of Wisconsin Hospitals
16. Keck Hospital of USC
15. UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside
14. Mount Sinai Hospital, NYC
13. Brigham and Women’s Hospital
12. Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital
11. University of Michigan Hospitals-Michigan Medicine
10. Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
9. NYU Langone Hospitals
8. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
7. UCSF Medical Center
6. UCLA Medical Center
5. New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell
4. Cleveland Clinic
3. Johns Hopkins Hospital
2. Massachusetts General Hospital
1. Mayo Clinic, Minnesota

[WASCWatch]

I schedule my appointments for around 9:00 am, and have to get a blood draw before that. I like knowing the results before my appointment, so I get there at about 6:30 am. Easy to find a good parking spot in the Mays clinic garage. I live in Baytown, so the commute isn’t bad. If I waited to leave home at 6:30am, 225 junction with 610 is a mess.

1:00pm appointments aren’t bad, either. Leave home at 9:30 and head back home by 2:00 pm.

I’d rather go in very early to avoid traffic problems. Can always take a new.