Cardiology Heart Surgery

Rank Hospital 1 Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston 2 Boston Children’s Hospital

U.S. News score Risk-adjusted surgical survival score (5=best)

Norwood/ hybrid surgery survival score (24=best) Length of stay after surgery score (9=best) Infection prevention score, overall (48=best) Infection prevention score, ICU (5=best) Surgery volume score (15=best) Catheter procedure volume score (21=best) Nursepatient ratio (higher is better)

% of specialists recommending hospital

100.0 5 24 6 44 3 14 21 4.2 44.7% 90.6 4 24 7 45 3 14 21 4.0 58.3% 3 UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh 89.9 5 19 8 45 3 7 15 3.3 14.7% 4 MUSC Children’s Heart Network of South Carolina, Charleston 88.6 5 24 8 45 4 8 17 2.5 7.7% 5 New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, New York 84.0 4 22 7 45 5 13 18 4.0 16.5% 6 Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital 82.6 4 24 8 44 5 10 17 3.5 2.1% 6 Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Indianapolis 82.6 5 24 7 45 5 10 15 4.3 3.8% 7 Duke Children’s Hospital and Health Center, Durham, N.C. 80.9 5 24 7 45 2 7 18 3.6 2.9% 8 Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia 80.8 3 24 7 46 2 14 20 3.5 46.5% 9 Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago 80.4 4 21 7 45 3 8 13 2.8 16.3% 10 U. of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, Ann Arbor 79.6 3 23 7 46 5 13 19 4.9 24.7% 11 Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego 79.5 4 23 7 48 2 8 15 3.5 3.7% 12 Children’s Hospital Los Angeles 79.3 3 22 9 42 5 11 15 3.8 16.7% 14 Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora 78.3 3 24 7 45 3 10 19 4.1 13.9% 15 Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio 78.2 3 21 7 45 5 7 16 3.3 10.4% 16 Cincinnati Children’s & Kentucky Children’s Hosp. Joint Heart Program 76.9 2 24 9 48 1 11 21 4.5 25.9% 16 Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, Baltimore 76.9 4 18 7 48 3 5 9 3.6 1.8% 18 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta 76.4 2 22 8 44 5 13 20 5.3 16.5% 19 Children’s Mercy Kansas City Hospital, Mo. 75.1 3 22 7 47 5 9 15 4.2 2.6% 19 Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, Tenn. 75.1 4 22 7 42 5 6 12 2.6 3.4% 20 Virginia Congenital Cardiac Collaborative, Charlottesville & Norfolk 74.8 4 23 7 46 3 9 17 3.0 1.5% 22 Levine Children’s Hospital, Charlotte, N.C. 74.1 4 23 8 47 4 6 16 3.3 2.2% 23 Seattle Children’s Hospital 74.0 3 23 7 47 2 11 15 3.6 9.9% 24 St. Louis Children’s Hospital-Washington University 73.3 3 20 7 45 3 6 19 3.7 3.4% 25 Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone, New York 73.0 5 21 8 46 5 5 10 3.1 1.3% 26 Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, Palo Alto, Calif. 72.5 1 17 6 47 5 14 19 4.3 32.4% 26 UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital, Gainesville, Fla. 72.5 4 24 7 41 5 8 10 2.8 1.9% 28 Children’s Hospital of Alabama at UAB, Birmingham 70.7 4 24 7 43 2 9 12 3.7 2.0% 28 Children’s Medical Center Dallas 70.7 3 16 7 45 5 7 13 3.3 3.9% 30 Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tenn. 70.0 3 19 8 46 2 10 19 3.5 4.2% 31 Children’s Wisconsin Hospital, Milwaukee 69.0 3 23 8 43 5 8 14 4.0 5.6% 32 American Family Children’s Hospital, Madison, Wis. 68.9 5 22 7 43 2 5 11 3.4 0.8% 33 Penn State Health Children’s Hospital, Hershey, Pa. 67.8 4 22 8 36 5 5 8 3.4 0.9% 34 Advocate Children’s Heart Institute, Oak Lawn and Park Ridge, Ill. 67.4 4 24 9 41 2 9 13 3.7 1.9% 35 Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston 66.9 5 22 6 41 2 7 8 3.3 1.9% 35 Ochsner Hospital for Children, New Orleans 66.9 3 22 7 40 5 4 11 2.8 0.9% 37 Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital, Loma Linda, Calif. 65.4 3 21 9 35 5 7 13 3.3 0.7% 37 Phoenix Children’s Hospital 65.4 3 18 7 47 5 9 19 3.2 2.7% 38 Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital-U. of Utah, Salt Lake City 65.1 3 22 7 45 2 9 16 3.3 5.0% 40 Mayo Clinic-Children’s Minnesota Cardiovasc. Collaborative, Rochester 64.4 2 22 7 44 4 13 17 3.7 4.7% 41 UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, San Francisco and Oakland 63.5 2 20 5 46 3 11 13 4.2 6.8% 42 University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, Baltimore 61.5 3 22 7 46 4 4 9 3.2 0.7% 43 Oklahoma Children’s Hospital OU Health, Oklahoma City 60.7 5 22 7 38 4 7 9 3.8 0.7% 44 Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Little Rock 59.7 2 19 6 46 5 6 16 3.5 1.3% 45 Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Cleveland 59.5 3 16 7 42 5 4 9 3.1 0.9% 46 Children’s National Hospital, Washington, D.C. 59.3 1 16 6 48 5 7 15 3.9 10.9% 47 Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, Miami 58.6 3 12 6 39 5 6 11 2.9 2.0% 48 Cook Children’s Medical Center, Fort Worth 57.3 3 22 6 42 5 9 16 3.2 0.6% 49 Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital at Memorial, Hollywood, Fla. 57.0 3 21 7 34 2 7 12 2.7 1.3% 50 CHOC Children’s Hospital, Orange, Calif. 56.4 4 18 6 44 2 4 8 3.8 0.6%