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C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital has earned the highest rankings in the state of Michigan and is among the best in the country in pediatric specialties in the U.S. News & World Report‘s new “America’s Best Children’s Hospitals” issue.
Mott is nationally ranked in eight of 10 pediatric specialty areas featured in the report. Only one other Michigan hospital is ranked in any specialty.
Mott is listed as fourth in the nation in children’s heart care and heart surgery, 13th in orthopedics, and 19th in kidney disorders, and among the nation’s best in cancer, diabetes and endocrinology, pulmonology, neonatology and urology.
“We are humbled to be recognized as among the best in the nation by our peers,” says Patricia Warner, executive director of Mott Children’s Hospital and Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital.
“These top rankings in a variety of specialties illustrate the strength, skill and outstanding and compassionate care our faculty and staff provide to patients and families from Michigan and across the country.”
The 2010 “America’s Best Children’s Hospitals” issue is available online at usnews.com/childrenshospitals. The 2010-11 Best Children’s Hospitals rankings also will be published in the August print issue of U.S.News & World Report, which will be available to subscribers by July 15 and on newsstands starting July 27.
This year’s “America’s Best Children’s Hospitals” issue features the 30 top-ranked hospitals in 10 specialties: cancer, diabetes and endocrinology, digestive disorders, heart and heart surgery, neonatology, neurology and neurosurgery, kidney, respiratory disorders, urology and orthopedics. It no longer includes an overall pediatric ranking.
The specialty rankings of this year’s “America’s Best Children’s Hospitals” were based on a methodology that weighed a three-part blend of reputation, outcomes and care-related measures such as nursing care, advanced technology, credentialing and other factors.
This announcement builds further momentum for the upcoming opening of the new Mott Children’s and Von Voigtlander Women’s hospitals. The U-M Health System has raised more than $69 million of its $75 million fundraising goal for the new $754 million facility.
With 1.1 million square feet, the facility will provide a new and larger home for specialty services not offered anywhere else in Michigan for newborns, children and pregnant women, such as the pediatric liver transplant program, the Level I Pediatric Trauma Program, the Pediatric and Adolescent Home Ventilator Program, the Craniofacial Anomalies Program, high-risk pregnancy services and specialty gynecological services.
