Children's Memorial ranks among the top children's hospitals
May 17, 2011 – Children's Memorial Hospital is in the top 50 Best Children’s Hospitals list in all 10 specialties ranked by the U.S. News & World Report. Children’s Memorial has four specialties in the top 10 including Urology (No. 6), Gastroenterology (No. 8) and Neurology/Neurosurgery (No. 9).
The new rankings recognize the top 50 children’s hospitals in 10 specialties: cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology, neonatology, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology and urology. Seventy-six hospitals are ranked in at least one specialty.
Now in its fifth year, Best Children’s Hospitals pulls together clinical and operational data from a lengthy survey, completed by the majority of the 177 hospitals asked to participate for the 2011-12 rankings. The survey asks hundreds of questions about survival rates, nurse staffing, subspecialist availability, and many more pieces of critical information difficult or impossible for those in charge of a child’s care to find on their own. The data from the survey is combined with recommendations from pediatric specialists on the hospitals they consider best for children with challenging problems.
For the full rankings and methodology, visit U.S. News & World Report.
Children’s Memorial is the pediatric teaching hospital of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. In June of 2012 Children's Memorial will be moving to its new hospital in downtown Chicago, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.