Table 1.

Top 50 US hospitals as determined by the 2010 US News and World Report rankings reranked using the academic ranking score (2005–2010)

“Academic ranking”	“Academic ranking” normalized by FTE	USNWR ranking 2010	Change in ranking	Institution	Academic ranking score (No. of publications adjusted by impact factor)
1	1	8	7	Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center	2055.2
2	14	2	0	Cleveland Clinic	1214.6
3	2	15	12	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center	1204.9
4	11	11	7	University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers	1183.9
5	13	4	−1	Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center	1167.7
6	3	6*	NA	New York Presbyterian University Hospital: Cornell	1128.5
7	4	5	−2	University of California, San Francisco	1034.9
8	5	7	−1	Duke University Medical Center	959.7
9	12	26	17	Northwestern Memorial Hospital	877.2
10	6	10	0	University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	827.7
11	7	1	−10	Johns Hopkins Hospital	795.6
12	10	9	−3	Vanderbilt University Medical Center	654.0
13	15	3	−10	Mayo Clinic, Rochester	622.7
14	8	16	2	USC University Hospital	617.3
15	17	17	2	Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University	513.6
16	18	6*	NA	New York-Presbyterian University Hospital: Columbia	433.9
17	26	12	−5	Massachusetts General Hospital	408.2
18	34	23	5	NYU Langone Medical Center	389.8
19	9	28	9	University of Chicago Medical Center	376.0
20	27	30	10	University of Washington Medical Center	365.8
21	20	25	4	Shands at the University of Florida	333.0
22	23	34	12	Henry Ford Hospital	286.1
23	28	32	9	University of California, Irvine Medical Center Irvine Medical Center	274.6
24	19	40	16	University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics	267.2
25	42	39	14	St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital	262.2
26	25	18	−8	Methodist Hospital	222.9
27	33	46	19	Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center	216.0
28	21	21	−7	Brigham and Women’s Hospital	212.6
29	35	48	19	Memorial Hermann - Texas Medical Center	204.3
30	16	51†	21	Fox Chase Cancer Center	202.1
30	24	22	−8	Stanford Hospital and Clinics	199.7
31	29	13	−18	Clarian Health	194.6
32	30	19	−13	University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics	192.6
33	38	20	−13	UPMC - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center	187.6
34	22	31	−3	University of Virginia Medical Center	176.6
35	31	14	−21	Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania	163.0
36	47	45	9	Mount Sinai Medical Center	144.9
37	36	43	6	University of Kansas Hospital	127.1
38	32	37	−1	University of Maryland Medical Center	120.0
39	39	29	−10	Ohio State University Hospital	118.0
40	37	41	1	Rush University Medical Center	113.2
41	45	27	−14	Lahey Clinic	99.5
42	40	33	−9	Emory University Hospital	98.2
43	43	44	1	Loyola University Medical Center	92.1
44	41	24	−20	University of Alabama Hospital at Birmingham	75.8
45	48	36	−9	Beaumont Hospital	57.3
46	44	42	−4	Yale - New Haven Hospital	42.2
47	46	35	−12	Tampa General Hospital	24.7
48	49	38	−10	City of Hope (Duarte, CA)	24.2
49	50	49	0	St. Cloud Hospital (Saint Cloud, MN)	18.3
50	51	47	−3	Baylor University Medical Center	13.0
51	52	50	−1	Christiana Care (Newark, DE)	11.3

FTE = full-time equivalent; USNWR = U.S. News and World Report; NA = not applicable.

^*Columbia and Cornell Departments of Urology at New York–Presbyterian University Hospital were considered as a single entity in the USNWR analysis.

^†Fox Chase Cancer Center was not ranked in USNWR and was assigned a rank of 51 for current analysis.