University Times

UPMC and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh both have won honors in recent U.S. News & World Report rankings.

UPMC was again the region’s only medical center named on the annual U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll of America’s Best Hospitals. UPMC was one of 14 hospitals nationwide that made the honor roll of the “nation’s best” in the 2010 survey.

UPMC was ranked in 15 of 16 specialty areas, including seven specialties for which UPMC is in the top 10. Only 152 hospitals of the nearly 5,000 nationally eligible hospitals were ranked in any specialty area. This year marks UPMC’s 11th appearance on the list.

According to U.S. News, the honor roll lists those institutions that demonstrate excellence and breadth of expertise by ranking at or near the top in at least six specialties.

UPMC’s ranked specialties were: Ear, nose and throat, 3rd; gynecology, 6th; respiratory disorders, 7th; geriatric care, 8th; orthopaedics, 8th; psychiatry, 9th; rheumatology, 9th; digestive disorders, 11th; rehabilitation, 15th; kidney disorders, 17th; neurology and neurosurgery, 17th; urology, 20th; heart and heart surgery, 22nd; diabetes and endocrinology, 30th, and two rankings in cancer, 31st for UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside and 42nd for Magee-Women’s Hospital of UPMC.

The 2010-11 publication of America’s Best Hospitals is accessible online at www.usnews.com/besthospitals and will be at newsstands beginning July 27.

Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh was one of eight pediatric hospitals in the country named to U.S. News & World Report’s Honor Roll of America’s “Best Children’s Hospitals.”

Children’s Hospital was ranked in all 10 of the pediatric specialties on the magazine’s annual Best Children’s Hospitals list. Hospitals that ranked in all 10 specialties made the U.S. News honor roll.

The magazine’s annual ranking lists the top 30 children’s hospitals in 10 pediatric specialties. The specialties are: cancer; diabetes and endocrinology; gastroenterology; heart and heart surgery; kidney; neonatology; neurology and neurosurgery; orthopaedics; pulmonology, and urology.

Compared to last year, Children’s Hospital’s ranking improved in eight of the 10 specialties, and Children’s was ranked in the top 10 in three specialties: diabetes and endocrinology, 3rd; gastroenterology, 6th, and pulmonology, 6th.

The 2010-11 Best Children’s Hospitals rankings are available online at http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/pediatric-rankings.

The rankings will be published in the August issue, available at newsstands July 27.