AARP The Magazine’s Top-Ranked Hospitals

From AARP The Magazine

AARP The Magazine debuted a new interactive map listing the top-ranked hospitals in the U.S. by geographic area. This list was compiled by Consumers’ Checkbook, a nonprofit organization, and coincides with the release of the May/June issue of AARP The Magazine, which features new information and advice for consumers deciding whether or not to travel away from home for medical care.

Consumers’ Checkbook surveyed doctors from across the country and collected 140,000 ratings of hospitals in their own communities and also asked the doctors whether, and where, they would recommend patients seek care in other communities for extremely difficult cases of heart conditions, cancer, and other ailments. When asked where they were most likely to send patients with extremely difficult cases, doctors surveyed by Consumers’ Checkbook named the following hospitals:

Heart, General

• Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
• Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
• Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA
• New York-Presbyterian/Columbia, New York, NY
• Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
• Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
• The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
• Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA
• Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Houston, TX

Cancer, General

• The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
• Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
• City of Hope, Duarte, CA
• The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
• Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC
• Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY

Mystery Diagnoses

• Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
• Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
• The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
• Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
• Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

Neurosurgery

• Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC
• Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
• University of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
• Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
• Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
• The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
• Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

Eyes

• Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami, Miami, FL
• Wills Eye Institute, Philadelphia, PA
• Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
• Wilmer Eye Institute, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

To see the interactive map of Consumers’ Checkbook’s top 125 hospitals, visit the AARP web site.