Ear, Nose & Throat

Rank Hospital U.S. News score Survival score (5=best) Discharge to home score (5=best)

Patient experience (% positive responses) Number of patients

Nurse staffing score (higher is better) A Nurse Magnet hospital Patient services score (8=best) Trauma center

% of specialists recommending hospital

1 Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Stanford, Calif. 100.0 5 5 94% 371 2.7 Yes 8 Yes 8.4% 2 UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles 95.4 5 5 93% 570 3.2 Yes 8 Yes 7.0% 3 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles 94.5 5 5 92% 269 2.7 Yes 8 Yes 1.9% 4 Mass Eye and Ear, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 92.2 5 3 94% 650 2.6 Yes 8 Yes 12.7% 5 Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore 91.1 5 5 92% 291 2.4 Yes 8 Yes 14.5% 6 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. 90.5 4 5 95% 605 2.9 Yes 8 Yes 10.2% 6 UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco 90.5 5 5 91% 346 2.6 Yes 8 Yes 5.3% 8 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York 89.7 5 5 95% 383 2.4 Yes 8 No 1.5% 9 University of Michigan Health-Ann Arbor 88.7 5 3 92% 517 2.7 Yes 8 Yes 8.7% 10 Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tenn. 88.5 5 5 91% 523 2.3 Yes 8 Yes 8.3% 11 Hosps. of the U. of Pennsylvania-Penn Presby., Philadelphia 84.6 5 3 91% 542 2.5 Yes 8 Yes 8.2% 12 OHSU Hospital, Portland, Ore. 82.8 5 5 91% 404 2.2 Yes 8 Yes 1.9% 13 New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell 81.0 4 5 89% 499 3.1 Yes 8 Yes 3.6% 14 Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Saint Louis 80.3 5 4 90% 452 2.5 Yes 8 Yes 5.3% 15 MUSC Health-University Medical Center, Charleston, S.C. 80.2 4 5 91% 504 2.0 Yes 8 Yes 4.8% 16 Tampa General Hospital 80.1 5 5 89% 219 2.6 Yes 8 Yes 0.7% 17 University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center 79.4 5 2 89% 471 2.6 Yes 8 Yes 1.3% 18 Mayo Clinic-Phoenix 78.9 4 5 96% 285 3.2 Yes 8 No 2.0% 19 Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus 77.2 4 5 89% 632 2.2 Yes 8 Yes 6.5% 20 University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 76.8 4 5 NA 854 1.9 Yes 8 No 6.7% 21 UC San Diego Health-La Jolla and Hillcrest Hospitals, San Diego 75.1 5 5 91% 196 2.1 Yes 8 Yes 2.3% 22 University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital 74.0 3 5 90% 671 2.3 Yes 8 Yes 2.5% 23 Cleveland Clinic 73.6 4 3 92% 490 2.4 Yes 8 No 7.3% 24 UW Medicine-University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle 72.9 4 5 91% 321 2.3 Yes 8 No 5.9% 25 UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, Pittsburgh 72.5 3 3 92% 581 2.3 Yes 8 Yes 6.7% 26 NYU Langone Hospitals, New York 71.4 4 4 89% 254 2.4 Yes 8 Yes 3.0% 27 Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston 70.2 4 3 92% 304 2.4 Yes 8 Yes 2.5% 27 University of Kansas Hospital, Kansas City 70.2 4 5 93% 407 2.1 Yes 8 Yes 2.7% 29 Duke University Hospital, Durham, N.C. 69.5 4 5 91% 211 2.1 Yes 8 Yes 2.5% 30 Emory University Hospital Midtown, Atlanta 68.9 5 5 85% 696 1.7 No 8 No 2.6% 31 University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City 67.6 3 5 89% 269 1.8 Yes 8 Yes 8.2% 32 Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn. 67.3 4 4 86% 501 2.0 Yes 8 Yes 1.1% 33 Froedtert Hosp. and the Medical College of Wis., Milwaukee 64.1 4 4 91% 248 1.8 Yes 8 Yes 0.8% 34 Rush University Medical Center, Chicago 64.0 4 5 91% 270 2.1 Yes 8 Yes 1.0% 35 Keck Medical Center of USC, Los Angeles 63.7 3 3 92% 182 2.5 Yes 8 Yes 3.1% 35 Mount Sinai Hospital, New York 63.7 3 5 88% 435 2.3 Yes 8 Yes 3.3% 37 UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, Calif. 62.5 3 4 89% 262 2.7 Yes 8 Yes 3.1% 38 Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital, New York 62.3 4 3 89% 194 2.9 Yes 8 No 2.1% 38 University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill 62.3 3 5 91% 445 1.7 Yes 8 Yes 3.7% 40 UF Health Shands Hospital, Gainesville, Fla. 62.1 4 2 90% 427 2.1 Yes 8 Yes 1.1% 41 North Shore University Hosp. at Northwell Health, Manhasset, N.Y. 61.9 4 5 90% 194 2.4 Yes 8 Yes 0.7% 42 Jefferson Health-Thomas Jefferson U. Hospitals, Philadelphia 60.8 3 3 90% 496 2.1 Yes 8 Yes 3.3% 43 Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans 60.6 3 5 90% 194 1.8 Yes 8 Yes 1.2% 44 University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore 60.0 3 3 89% 321 3.0 Yes 8 Yes 1.2% 45 Indiana University Health Medical Center, Indianapolis 59.8 4 3 88% 340 2.0 Yes 8 Yes 1.5% 46 Long Island Jewish Med. Ctr. at Northwell, New Hyde Park, N.Y. 59.5 3 5 87% 546 1.8 Yes 8 Yes 1.6% 47 UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora 58.3 4 3 91% 137 2.1 Yes 8 Yes 1.7% 48 Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Ill. 57.6 3 3 86% 336 2.4 Yes 8 Yes 1.7% 49 Beaumont Hospital-Royal Oak, Mich. 57.0 3 5 87% 228 2.0 Yes 8 Yes 0.1% 49 University of Chicago Medical Center 57.0 3 3 90% 266 2.3 Yes 8 Yes 1.4%