List of Top Pediatric Hospitals in the USA - 2011

Published below is a list of the top Pediatric hospitals in the USA published by US News & World report. All the hospitals were scored in 3 areas: reputation among pediatric specialists, clinical outcomes, and care-related indicators of quality such as nurse–patient ratios, surgical volume, and the availability of specialized programs. For this publication, US News & World Report solicited data from 177 hospitals and received responses from 100. The magazine also asked some 1500 pediatric specialists to name the 5 best hospitals where they would send children with serious or difficult problems without regard to cost or geography.

Here are the top 3 in each category:

Cancer

1. Children's Hospital Boston and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
2. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee

Diabetes and Endocrinology

1. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2. Children's Hospital Boston
3. Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC

Gastroenterology

1. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
2. Children's Hospital Boston
3. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Heart and Heart Surgery

1. Children's Hospital Boston
2. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3. University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital

Kidney

1. Children's Hospital Boston
2. Seattle Children's Hospital
3. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Neonatology

1. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2. Children's Hospital Boston
3. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Neurology and Neurosurgery

1. Children's Hospital Boston
2. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3. Johns Hopkins Children's Center, Baltimore

Orthopaedics

1. Children's Hospital Boston
2. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3. Children's Medical Center–Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, Dallas

Pulmonology

1. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
3. Children's Hospital Boston

Urology

1. Children's Hospital Boston
2. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3. Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health, Indianapolis

Hospitals appearing on the 2011 to 2012 honor roll are as follows (repeated numbers indicate a tie):

1. Children's Hospital Boston

1. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

3. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

4. Texas Children's Hospital, Houston

5. Children's Hospital Colorado, Denver

5. Johns Hopkins Children's Center, Baltimore

7. Seattle Children's Hospital

8. Children's Hospital Los Angeles

8. Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC

8. New York–Presbyterian Morgan Stanley-Komansky Children's Hospital

8. St. Louis Children's Hospital–Washington University

Read more here

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/742874?src=mpnews&spon=9 (requires free registration)

While we do have list of medical colleges ranked (a bit arbitrarily in my opinion) that is published annually by an Indian Periodical India Today, a similar study in India would be very informative and illuminating.