U.S. News Ranks Cincinnati Children’s Among Top Three Children’s Hospitals
U.S. News & World Report has ranked Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center the third best children’s hospital in the United States in general pediatrics in the 2008 edition of its annual "America’s Best Children’s Hospitals" rankings.
In addition, U.S. News ranked for the first time the best children’s hospitals for specialty care. Cincinnati Children’s ranked in the top 20 in the following specialties: #3 in digestive diseases, #3 in respiratory diseases, #4 in cancer, #6 in neonatal care and #8 in heart and heart surgery and #17 in neurology and neurosurgery.
Using a new methodology this year, U.S News discontinued its ranking of the "top 30 pediatric hospitals" overall and added the category of "top 30 in general pediatrics" – a category in which hospitals are ranked by measures that are appropriate to pediatric care in general.
The specialty rankings of this year’s America’s Best Children’s Hospitals were based on a new methodology that weighed a three-part blend of reputation, outcome, and care-related measures such as nursing care, advanced technology, credentialing, and other factors.
