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World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2023
As part of Newsweek's commitment to cover all aspects of health, we've again partnered with global research firm Statista to rank the world's best specialized hospitals. Last year, we looked at the best facilities in 10 specialties: cardiology, cardiac surgery, oncology, endocrinology, neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedics, gastroenterology, pulmonology and pediatrics. This year we are proud to expand that to 11 specialties, with the addition of urology. The ranking features the top 300 hospitals for cardiology and oncology, the top 200 for pediatrics, the top 150 for cardiac surgery and endocrinology and the top 125 each in gastroenterology, orthopedics, neurology, neurosurgery, urology and pulmonology. And for the second year, Newsweek and Statista have developed a list of hospitals that best avail themselves of the most advanced technologies.
The World's Best Smart Hospitals 2023 ranks the 300 facilities in 28 countries that lead in their use of AI, digital imaging, telemedicine, robotics and electronic functionalities.
We hope that you will find our rankings helpful in finding the right hospital for yourself or a loved one.
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- Top Specialized Hospitals - Oncology
- Top Specialized Hospitals - Cardiac Surgery
- Top Specialized Hospitals - Cardiology
- Top Specialized Hospitals - Endocrinology
- Top Specialized Hospitals - Gastroenterology
- Top Specialized Hospitals - Neurology
- Top Specialized Hospitals - Neurosurgery
- Top Specialized Hospitals - Orthopedics
- Top Specialized Hospitals - Pediatrics
- Top Specialized Hospitals - Pulmonology
- Top Specialized Hospitals - Urology
Rank | Hospital | Department | City | Country | PROMS |
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1 | Cleveland Clinic | Cardiovascular Surgery Department | Cleveland, OH | United States | |
2 | Mayo Clinic - Rochester | Cardiovascular Surgery | Rochester, MN | United States | |
3 | Massachusetts General Hospital | Cardiac Surgery | Boston, MA | United States | |
4 | The Johns Hopkins Hospital | Heart and Vascular Institute | Baltimore, MD | United States | |
5 | The Mount Sinai Hospital | Heart - Cardiology & Cardiovascular Surgery | New York, NY | United States | |
6 | Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin | Klinik für Herz-, Thorax- und Gefäßchirurgie | Berlin | Germany | |
7 | Brigham And Women's Hospital | Cardiac Surgery | Boston, MA | United States | |
8 | New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell | Cardiac Surgery | New York, NY | United States | |
9 | The University of Tokyo Hospital | Cardiovascular Surgery | Tokyo | Japan | |
10 | AP-HP - Hôpital Universitaire Pitié Salpêtrière | Department of Cardiac Surgery | Paris | France | |
11 | Herzzentrum Leipzig | Herzchirurgie | Leipzig | Germany | |
12 | Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center | Cardiothoracic Surgery Clinic | Houston, TX | United States | |
13 | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | Cardiology department | Los Angeles, CA | United States | |
14 | Stanford Health Care - Stanford Hospital | General Cardiology | Stanford, CA | United States | |
15 | NYU Langone Hospitals | Cardiothoracic Surgery | New York, NY | United States | |
16 | Duke University Hospital | Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery | Durham, NC | United States | |
17 | Herz- und Diabeteszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen | Klinik für Thorax- und Kardiovaskularchirurgie | Bad Oeynhausen | Germany | |
18 | Royal Brompton Hospital | Adult cardiac surgery | London | United Kingdom | |
19 | Toronto General - University Health Network | Cardiac Surgery | Toronto | Canada | |
20 | Centro Cardiologico Monzino | Department of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery | Milano | Italy | |
21 | UCLA Health – Ronald Reagan Medical Center | Cardiovascular Center | Los Angeles, CA | United States | |
22 | Policlinico Sant'Orsola-Malpighi | Cardiac Surgery | Bologna | Italy | |
23 | AP-HP - Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou | Service de Chirurgie cardio vasculaire | Paris | France | |
24 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital | Cardiovascular institute | Chicago, IL | United States | |
25 | National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center | Cardiovascular surgery department | Suita | Japan | |
26 | Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin | Klinik für Kardiovaskuläre Chirurgie – Herzchirurgie | Berlin | Germany | |
27 | Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania - Penn Presbyterian | Penn Cardiovascular Surgery Penn Presbyterian | Philadelphia, PA | United States | |
28 | Houston Methodist Hospital | Department of cardiology | Houston, TX | United States | |
29 | University of Chicago Medical Center | Heart and Vascular Care | Chicago, IL | United States | |
30 | Boston Children's Hospital | Cardiology department | Boston, MA | United States | |
31 | Medizinische Hochschule Hannover | Klinik für Herz-, Thorax-, Transplantations- und Gefäßchirurgie | Hannover | Germany | |
32 | UCSF Medical Center | Cardiothoracic Surgery | San Francisco, CA | United States | |
33 | Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón | Cirugía Cardiaca | Madrid | Spain | |
34 | Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg | Klinik für Herzchirurgie | Heidelberg | Germany | |
35 | Hospital Clínic de Barcelona | Cardiovascular Institute | Barcelona | Spain | |
36 | AP-HP - Hôpital Bichat-Claude-Bernard | Service de Chirurgie cardiaque et vasculaire | Paris | France | |
37 | Sakakibara Heart Institute | Cardiovascular Surgery | Tokyo | Japan | |
38 | University of Michigan Hospitals - Michigan Medicine | Cardiac Surgery | Ann Arbor, MI | United States | |
39 | Mayo Clinic - Health System In Eau Claire | Cardiac Surgery | Eau Claire, WI | United States | |
40 | Royal Melbourne Hospital - Parkville | Cardiothoracic Surgery Clinic | Parkville | Australia | |
41 | Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center | Heart & Vascular Institute | Houston, TX | United States | |
42 | Instituto do Coração | Cirurgia Cardiovascular | Sao Paulo | Brazil | |
43 | Mayo Clinic - Phoenix | Cardiovascular institute | Phoenix, AZ | United States | |
44 | Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset | Cardiac Surgery | Solna | Sweden | |
45 | University of Washington Medical Center | Cardiac Surgery | Seattle, WA | United States | |
46 | Great Ormond Street Hospital | Cardiothoracic Surgery Clinic | London | United Kingdom | |
47 | Baylor University Medical Center | Cardiothoracic Surgery | Dallas, TX | United States | |
48 | Ospedale San Raffaele - Gruppo San Donato | Cardiochirurgia | Milano | Italy | |
49 | Hospital Universitario La Paz | Cirugía Cardiaca Adultos | Madrid | Spain | |
50 | Universitätsklinikum Bonn | Department of Cardiac Surgery | Bonn | Germany | |
51 | Amsterdam UMC | Hartcentrum | Amsterdam | The Netherlands | |
52 | Deutsches Herzzentrum München des Freistaates Bayern | Klinik für Herz- und Gefäßchirurgie | München | Germany | |
53 | Universitäts-Herzzentrum Freiburg - Bad Krozingen | Klinik für Herz- und Gefäßchirurgie | Freiburg | Germany | |
54 | Asan Medical Center | Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery | Seoul | South Korea | |
55 | John Radcliffe Hospital | Cardiothoracic Services | Oxford | United Kingdom | |
56 | National University Heart Centre, Singapore (NUHCS) | Cardiac Surgery | Singapore | Singapore | |
57 | King's College Hospital | Cardiothoracic surgery | London | United Kingdom | |
58 | Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Sant'Andrea | UOC Cardiochirurgia | Roma | Italy | |
59 | Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center | Heart and Vascular Institute - Cardiac Surgery | Baltimore, MD | United States | |
60 | Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre | Cardiac Surgery | Toronto | Canada | |
61 | The Prince Charles Hospital | Cardiothoracic Surgery | Chermside | Australia | |
62 | St Vincent’s Hospital - Darlinghurst | Cardiothoracic Surgery | Darlinghurst | Australia | |
63 | Royal Papworth Hospital | Cardiology department | Cambridge | United Kingdom | |
64 | Osaka University Hospital | Cardiovascular Surgery | Osaka | Japan | |
65 | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | Cardiac Surgery | Boston, MA | United States | |
66 | Mayo Clinic - Jacksonville | Cardiovascular Surgery | Jacksonville, FL | United States | |
67 | Maastricht UMC+ | Hart+Vaat Centrum | Maastricht | The Netherlands | |
68 | Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron | Cardiac Surgery | Barcelona | Spain | |
69 | Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein | Center of Cardiology and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery | Sao Paulo | Brazil | |
70 | Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia | Cirurgia Cardiovascular | Sao Paulo | Brazil | |
71 | Universitätsspital Zürich | Universitäres Herzzentrum Zürich | Zürich | Switzerland | |
72 | Keio University Hospital | Cardiovascular Surgery | Tokyo | Japan | |
73 | Akademiska Sjukhuset | Hjärtmottagningen | Uppsala | Sweden | |
74 | St. Bartholomew's Hospital | Barts Heart Centre | London | United Kingdom | |
75 | CHU Bordeaux - Groupe hospitalier Pellegrin | Chirurgie Cardiaque Adulte | Bordeaux | France | |
76 | Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre | Cirugía Cardiovascular | Madrid | Spain | |
77 | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | Department of Surgery | New York, NY | United States | |
78 | Complexo Hospitalario Universitario a Coruña | Cirugía Cardiaca | A Coruña | Spain | |
79 | Aarhus Universitetshospital | Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery | Aarhus | Denmark | |
80 | Barnes-Jewish Hospital | Heart & Vascular Center - Cardiac Surgery | Saint Louis, MO | United States | |
81 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences - Delhi | Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery (CTVS) | Delhi | India | |
82 | Alfried Krupp Krankenhaus Rüttenscheid | Klinik für Kardiologie, Elektrophysiologie, Nephrologie, Altersmedizin und Intensivmedizin | Essen | Germany | |
83 | St. Michael’s Hospital | Cardiac and Vascular Surgery Inpatient Unit | Toronto | Canada | |
84 | Narayana Institute of Cardiac Sciences | Cardiac Surgery | Bangalore | India | |
85 | Cleveland Clinic - Florida | Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiac Surgery | Weston, FL | United States | |
86 | Harefield Hospital | Cardiac and thoracic surgery | Harefield | United Kingdom | |
87 | Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo | Unità Terapia Intensiva cardiologica | Pavia | Italy | |
88 | Advocate Christ Medical Center | Cardiovascular Surgery | Oak Lawn, IL | United States | |
89 | Seoul National University - Bundang Hospital | Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery | Seongnam City | South Korea | |
90 | BP – A Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo | Cardiologia | Sao Paulo | Brazil | |
91 | Herzzentrum Dresden | Klinik für Herzchirurgie | Dresden | Germany | |
92 | Juntendo University Hospital | Department of Cardiovascular Surgery | Tokyo | Japan | |
93 | St. Luke's International Hospital | Cardiovascular Center | Tokyo | Japan | |
94 | University of Miami Hospital | Cardiovascular | Miami, FL | United States | |
95 | AP-HM - Hôpital de la Timone | Chirurgie cardio-thoracique | Marseille | France | |
96 | Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova | Cardiochirurgia | Padova | Italy | |
97 | Hospital Pro Cardiaco | Cardiologia - Cirurgia Cardíaca | Rio De Janeiro | Brazil | |
98 | Universitätsklinikum Jena | Klinik für Herz- und Thoraxchirurgie | Jena | Germany | |
99 | UC San Diego Health - Jacobs Medical Center | Heart Surgery | San Diego, CA | United States | |
100 | Centre Cardiologique du Nord | Cardiac Surgery | Saint-Denis | France | |
101 | Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal | Opération du système cardiaque | Montreal | Canada | |
102 | CHU Rennes - Site Pontchaillou | Chirurgie thoracique, cardiaque et vasculaire | Rennes | France | |
103 | Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano | Texas Health Heart & Lung Surgical Specialists | Plano, TX | United States | |
104 | Guy's Hospital | Cardiac surgery services | London | United Kingdom | |
105 | Azienda Ospedaliera San Camillo Forlanini | UOC Cardiochirurgia E Dei Trapianti Di Cuore | Roma | Italy | |
106 | Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío | Cardiología y Cirugia Cardiovascular | Sevilla | Spain | |
107 | California Pacific Medical Center | CPMC Cardiovascular Surgery | San Francisco, CA | United States | |
108 | Center Hospital of the National Center for Global Health and Medicine | Cardiovascular surgery | Tokyo | Japan | |
109 | Charing Cross Hospital | Cardiothoracic surgery | London | United Kingdom | |
110 | Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf | Universitäres Herz- und Gefäßzentrum UKE Hamburg | Hamburg | Germany | |
111 | Hospital Clínico San Carlos | Cirugía Cardíaca | Madrid | Spain | |
112 | Children's Hospital Colorado | Pediatric Heart Surgery | Colorado Springs, CO | United States | |
113 | Allgemeines Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien - Medizinischer Universitätscampus | Univ. Klinik für Herzchirurgie | Wien | Austria | |
114 | Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro | Cirugía Cardiaca | Majadahonda | Spain | |
115 | MedStar Georgetown University Hospital | Cardiac Surgery | Washington, WA | United States | |
116 | Austin Hospital - Heidelberg | Heart surgery | Heidelberg | Australia | |
117 | MD Anderson Cancer Center | Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery | Houston, TX | United States | |
118 | Hospital das Clinicas da Universidade de Sao Paulo | Cardiopneumology | Sao Paulo | Brazil | |
119 | LMU Klinikum | Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik I (Kardiologie) | Munich | Germany | |
120 | Hospital Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Reims | Chirurgie Cardio-Vasculaire et Thoracique | Reims Cedex | France | x |
121 | University of California - Davis Medical Center | Cardiothoracic Surgery | Sacramento, CA | United States | |
122 | Advocate Sherman Hospital | Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery | Elgin, IL | United States | |
123 | Ospedale Papa Giovanni XXIII | Cardiochirurgia | Bergamo | Italy | |
124 | Fortis Escorts Heart Institute | Adult Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery | Delhi | India | |
125 | CHU Strasbourg - Hôpital Civil | Chirurgie cardiovasculaire, transplantation et assistance cardiaques | Strasbourg | France | |
126 | Emory University Hospital | Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery | Atlanta, GA | United States | |
127 | Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery | Chicago, IL | United States | |
128 | Institut Mutualiste Montsouris | Chirurgie Cardiaque | Paris | France | |
129 | Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes | Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery | Homburg | Germany | |
130 | Herz- und Gefäß-Klinik | Klinik für Kardiochirurgie | Bad Neustadt an der Saale | Germany | |
131 | Adventhealth Orlando | Cardiovascular Institute | Orlando, FL | United States | |
132 | Hirslanden Klinik Im Park | Cardiovascular medicine | Zürich | Switzerland | |
133 | AP-HP - Hôpital Cochin | Service de Cardiologie | Paris | France | |
134 | Les Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG) - Cluse-Roseraie | Cardiovascular Surgery Division | Geneva | Switzerland | |
135 | Erasmus MC | Cardiothoracic Surgery | Rotterdam | The Netherlands | |
136 | Arkansas Heart Hospital | Cardiovascular and thoracic department | Little Rock, AR | United States | |
137 | Klinik Hirslanden Zürich | HerzZentrum Hirslanden Zürich | Zurich | Switzerland | |
138 | AGAPLESION Bethanien Krankenhaus | Kardiologie | Frankfurt | Germany | |
139 | Universitätsklinikum Köln | Herz- und Thoraxchirurgie | Cologne | Germany | |
140 | Universitätsklinikum Erlangen | Herzchirurgische Klinik | Erlangen | Germany | |
141 | Universitätsklinikum Tübingen | Thorax-, Herz- und Gefäßchirurgie | Tübingen | Germany | |
142 | St Thomas' Hospital | Cardiac Surgery | London | United Kingdom | |
143 | Baylor Scott and White - The Heart Hospital Plano | Cardiothoracic Surgery | Plano, TX | United States | |
144 | Asklepios Klinik St. Georg | Herzchirurgie | Hamburg | Germany | |
145 | Universitätsklinikum RWTH Aachen | Klinik für Herzchirurgie | Aachen | Germany | |
146 | Abbott Northwestern Hospital | Minneapolis Heart Institute | Minneapolis, MN | United States | |
147 | Elsan - Clinique Saint-Augustin | Chirurgie cardiovasculaire et thoracique | Bordeaux | France | |
148 | Children's Hospital at Westmead | Heart Centre for Children | Sydney | Australia | |
149 | St Vincent's Private Hospital East Melbourne | Cardiothoracic surgery | Melbourne | Australia | |
150 | Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital | Adult Heart Surgery | Liverpool | Australia |
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METHODOLOGY
The World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2023 ranking awards the leading hospitals worldwide in 11 medical fields: cardiology, cardiac surgery, oncology, endocrinology, neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedics, gastroenterology, pulmonology, pediatrics and (for the first time) urology.
The lists are based on a global survey, to which over 40,000 medical professionals (doctors, health care professionals and hospital managers) were invited.
The ranking features the top 300 hospitals for cardiology and oncology, the top 200 for pediatrics, the top 150 for cardiac surgery and endocrinology and the top 125 for neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedics, gastroenterology, pulmonology and urology. The list is based on three data sources:
1. WORLDWIDE ONLINE SURVEY:
During the survey period from July to August 2022, thousands of experts were invited to an online survey in cooperation with Newsweek. Participants were asked to recommend hospitals based on their expertise in one primary medical field (e.g., cardiology for cardiologists) and were able to choose an optional secondary area of expertise in which they are also knowledgeable (e.g., due to frequent cooperation with other medical fields).
2. ACCREDITATION DATA (NEW):
Several accreditations/certifications have been added to the scoring model (where available). Accreditations/certifications reflect a range of structural and/or quality requirements which are now relevant for the specialized rankings.
3. PROMs SURVEY (NEW):
In 2022, Newsweek and Statista, together with an expert board, designed a survey regarding the status quo of implementation and use of generic and condition specific PROMs (patient reported outcome measures) hospital settings. This survey was sent to hospitals, collecting information from them directly. Newsweek and Statista understand the importance of this topic, adding the PROMs score to the scoring model for the first time.
Hospitals that specialize in more than one medical field received specific recommendation scores for each medical field based on the respective recommendations. Therefore, one hospital can be represented in more than one list if it receives enough recommendations in each medical field (up to being represented in all 11 lists).
Scoring Model
▸ RECOMMENDATIONS FROM PEERS (primary weighted 70%, secondary weighted 30%. Total weight 92.5%)
▸ ACCREDITATIONS/CERTIFICATIONS (5%)
▸ PROMs SURVEY (2.5%)
Primary recommendations from experts in each medical field account for 70% of each hospital's preliminary reputation score. Secondary recommendations from medical professionals with knowledge in more than one medical field received a weight of 30% toward the preliminary reputation score.
From July to August 2022 Statista invited over 40,000 medical professionals (mostly doctors, but also hospital managers and other health care professionals) in over 20 countries to an online survey. The survey was also promoted on newsweek.com. Participants were invited via email.
Participants were asked to recommend hospitals in their own field of expertise and were able to recommend hospitals of a secondary field. Recommendations for their own employer/hospital were not allowed. A score was assigned to each facility based on the number of weighted recommendations.For the first time, accreditations were used as an additional element of the scoring model (where available). The following accreditations/certifications reflect a range of structural and/or quality requirements which are now relevant for the specialized rankings:
▸CARF International(Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities)
▸IAC (Intersocietal Accreditation Commission)
▸JCI (Joint Commission International)
In addition to general hospital certifications, any available accreditations/certifications relevant to specific medical fields (e.g., pediatric specialty program for pediatrics, brain injury specialty program for neurology) were used as well.
For the first time, a PROMs score has been added to the scoring model of this year's edition of the ranking. In summer 2022, Newsweek and Statista reached out to hospitals and conducted a survey about the implementation and use of PROMs.
Patient reported outcome measurements are defined as standardized, validated questionnaires completed by patients to measure their perception of their functional well-being and quality of life. The purpose of the PROMs survey is to determine the status quo of implementation of generic and condition specific PROMs in hospital settings, audits and reporting of the data, and to determine whether the PROMs data is used to optimize the care process and to support therapeutic decisions in real-time.
In cooperation with a panel of experts, a grading system for the different questions was built to determine a PROMs Score. Only hospitals which achieved a minimum of 70% (of the maximum 100% score) were eligible to be graded on the PROMs score curve.
A global board of renowned experts provided guidance and feedback in the design of the PROMs survey:
Prof. Dr. David Bates , Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Gary Kaplan, Senior Advisor and Senior Vice President, CommonSpirit Health
Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Meier, Director, Department of Internal medicine, University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland
Dr. Eyal Zimlichman, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Sheba Medical Center, Israel
Prof. Dr. Gregory Katz, Chair of Innovation Management & Value in Health, University of Paris Medical School, France
Dr. med. Jens Deerberg Wittram CEO, Romed Kliniken, Germany
The rankings are composed exclusively of hospitals that are eligible regarding the scope described here. A mention in the ranking is a positive recognition based on peer recommendations and publicly available data sources at the time. The ranking is the result of an elaborate process which, due to the interval of data collection and analysis, is a reflection of the last calendar year. Furthermore, events preceding or following the period August 17,2021 to August 17, 2022 and/or pertaining to individual persons affiliated/associated with the facilities were not included in the metrics. As such, the results of this ranking should not be used as the sole source of information for future deliberations. The information provided in this ranking should be considered in conjunction with other available information about hospitals or, if possible, accompanied by a visit to a facility. The quality of hospitals that are not included in the rankings is not disputed.
You can download the full methodology here.