Out of the 5,000 hospitals that were evaluated, Boston, MA has two(2) (#2 Massachusetts General Hospital and #8 Brigham and Womens) in the top 8 of the newest 2011 poll conducted by RTI International. Hospitals were ranked based on their expertise and “competance” across multiple specialties.
| Rank |
Hospital |
Points |
Specialties |
| 1 |
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore |
30 |
15 |
| 2 |
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston |
29 |
15 |
| 3 |
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. |
28 |
15 |
| 4 |
Cleveland Clinic |
26 |
13 |
| 5 |
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles |
25 |
14 |
| 6 |
New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell, N.Y. |
22 |
12 |
| 7 |
UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco |
20 |
11 |
| 8 |
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston |
18 |
12 |
| 9 |
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. |
18 |
10 |
| 10 |
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia |
17 |
12 |
| 11 |
Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis |
16 |
11 |
| 12 |
UPMC-University of Pittsburgh Medical Center |
14 |
8 |
| 13 |
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle |
13 |
9 |
| 14 |
University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, Ann Arbor |
10 |
6 |
| 14 |
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville |
10 |
6 |
| 16 |
Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York |
8 |
6 |
| 17 |
Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, Calif. |
7 |
6 |
*The rankings were produced for U.S. News by RTI International, a leading research organization based in Research Triangle Park, N.C. Be sure to add your own fact-gathering to ours; no hospital is best for every patient.
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