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, Tenn.
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, Tenn.
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, MilwaukeeThe 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, M.D.
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