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Magazine Ranks Best Children's Hospitals

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is America's best
children's hospital, according to U.S. News & World Report's 2007
list of best children's hospitals.

Here is U.S. News & World Report's full list of best children's
hospitals:


  1. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

  2. Children's Hospital Boston

  3. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore

  4. Children's Hospital, Denver

  5. Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland

  6. Texas Children's Hospital, Houston

  7. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

  8. New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell

  9. Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle

  10. Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, Calif.

  11. Children's National Medical Center, Washington, D.C.

  12. Columbus Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio

  13. Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC

  14. Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

  15. St. Louis Children's Hospital

  16. UCSF Children's Hospital, San Francisco

  17. Childrens Hospital Los Angeles

  18. Primary Children's Medical Center, Salt Lake City

  19. Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.

  20. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis

  21. Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA, Los Angeles

  22. University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor, Mich.

  23. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville

  24. Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, N.Y.

  25. Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago

  26. Miami Children's Hospital

  27. Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, Minneapolis

  28. Children's Medical Center Dallas

  29. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

  30. Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee


The magazine based its rankings on children's hospitals' death rates,
care-related factors including the number of nurses, and the children's
hospitals' reputation with 200 board-certified pediatricians, adolescent
medicine specialists, and neonatologists.

In July, U.S. News & World Report issued its 2007 list of best
U.S. hospitals .

By Miranda Hitti
Reviewed by Louise Chang
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