Neurology & Neurosurgery

Rank Hospital U.S. News score Surgical survival score (12=best)

Surgical complications prevention score (22=best) Epilepsy management score (6=best) Infection prevention score, overall (45=best) Surgery volume score (39=best)

Nursepatient ratio (higher is better) A Nurse Magnet hospital

% of specialists recommending hospital

1 Boston Children’s Hospital 2 Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston 3 Children’s National Hospital, Washington, D.C. 4 Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia 5 St. Louis Children’s Hospital-Washington University

100.0 12 21 6 45 36 4.0 Yes 43.3% 96.9 12 22 6 42 38 4.2 Yes 26.1% 95.9 12 22 6 45 34 3.9 Yes 20.2% 94.7 12 19 6 43 33 3.5 Yes 35.5% 94.3 12 22 6 44 36 3.7 Yes 17.6% 6 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center 92.7 12 21 5 45 37 4.5 Yes 19.6% 7 Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, Palo Alto, Calif. 90.7 12 22 6 44 29 4.3 Yes 9.2% 8 Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego 89.5 12 22 6 45 39 3.5 Yes 4.2% 9 Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio 88.4 12 21 5 42 33 3.3 Yes 13.4% 10 UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh 88.1 12 21 5 43 32 3.3 Yes 9.7% 11 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta 87.0 12 22 6 41 36 5.3 Yes 3.4% 12 Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora 86.2 12 17 5 41 32 4.1 Yes 15.7% 13 Seattle Children’s Hospital 85.9 12 22 4 43 29 3.6 Yes 17.3% 14 New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, New York 84.7 11 22 6 41 27 4.0 Yes 7.2% 15 Children’s Hospital Los Angeles 84.2 12 22 4 40 34 3.8 Yes 7.8% 16 UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, San Francisco and Oakland 83.5 12 17 4 43 32 4.2 Yes 12.7% 17 Intermountain Primary Children’s Hosp.-U. of Utah, Salt Lake City 82.7 11 22 6 42 36 3.3 No 7.4% 18 Children’s Mercy Kansas City Hospital, Mo. 81.2 12 20 6 43 29 4.2 Yes 2.1% 18 Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, St. Petersburg, Fla. 81.2 12 22 6 44 29 3.9 Yes 1.5% 19 Phoenix Children’s Hospital 81.1 12 20 6 44 36 3.2 No 4.4% 20 Cohen Children’s Medical Center, New Hyde Park, N.Y. 80.8 12 22 4 43 32 4.0 Yes 2.5% 21 Children’s Medical Center Dallas 80.4 12 22 3 44 38 3.3 Yes 3.4% 23 Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, Baltimore 78.4 12 19 2 45 24 3.6 Yes 12.5% 23 Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tenn. 78.4 11 14 6 43 32 3.5 Yes 4.1% 25 Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, Miami 77.7 12 17 6 36 23 2.9 Yes 5.5% 26 Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit 77.3 12 22 6 41 27 2.7 No 0.9% 27 Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston 77.1 12 19 6 39 23 3.3 Yes 1.6% 28 Children’s Hospital of Alabama at UAB, Birmingham 76.6 12 18 5 44 31 3.7 No 5.0% 29 Cook Children’s Medical Center, Fort Worth 76.5 12 20 5 40 28 3.2 Yes 3.2% 30 UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles 76.1 12 18 5 37 19 4.6 Yes 5.3% 30 Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, New Haven, Conn. 76.1 12 22 4 41 12 4.1 Yes 0.9% 32 Mayo Clinic Children’s Center, Rochester, Minn. 75.5 11 19 4 40 19 3.7 Yes 4.9% 33 Valley Children’s Healthcare and Hospital, Madera, Calif. 74.8 12 22 5 42 20 3.8 Yes 0.6% 34 UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital, Gainesville, Fla. 74.6 12 22 4 39 14 2.8 Yes 1.3% 35 Children’s Wisconsin Hospital, Milwaukee 74.5 12 13 6 41 20 4.0 Yes 1.9% 36 Akron Children’s Hospital, Ohio 73.4 12 17 6 41 18 3.3 Yes 0.9% 37 CHOC Children’s Hospital, Orange, Calif. 73.0 12 14 5 41 25 3.8 Yes 3.2% 38 Doernbecher Children’s Hosp. at Oregon Hlth. & Sci. U., Portland, Ore. 72.8 12 17 4 36 20 4.3 Yes 2.2% 38 University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital, Iowa City 72.8 12 21 3 40 21 3.5 Yes 1.5% 40 Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital 72.2 12 19 2 41 22 3.5 Yes 5.0% 41 Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, Orlando 71.7 11 21 5 41 20 3.0 Yes 0.4% 42 Levine Children’s Hospital, Charlotte, N.C. 71.1 11 17 5 44 22 3.3 Yes 0.5% 42 Spectrum Hlth. Helen DeVos Children’s Hosp., Grand Rapids, Mich. 71.1 12 14 5 41 22 2.9 Yes 0.4% 44 Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital, New York 70.9 12 22 4 34 18 3.2 Yes 0.7% 45 University of Virginia Children’s Hospital, Charlottesville 70.4 12 18 4 43 14 3.0 Yes 1.1% 46 Wolfson Children’s Hospital, Jacksonville, Fla. 70.0 12 16 6 31 18 2.6 Yes 0.9% 47 Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Indianapolis 69.0 11 17 2 42 28 4.3 Yes 2.2% 48 Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Little Rock 68.9 12 18 2 43 21 3.5 Yes 0.9% 49 Dell Children’s Medical Center, Austin 67.5 12 19 4 33 21 3.2 Yes 2.6% 49 U. of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, Ann Arbor 67.5 10 12 3 42 20 4.9 Yes 5.9%