The top-ranked hospitals in the U.S.

For Clinical Excellence, these 17 hospitals have a rare combination of breadth and depth.

A place in hospitals honor is reserved for medical centers that demonstrate an unusual experience in multiple specialties, with scores at or near the top in at least six of the 16 specialties. Only 17 of nearly 5,000 hospitals evaluated for the ranking qualified 2011-12. Hospitals with the highest scores in a given specialty Honor Roll two points, those with slightly lower scores received a standing point .* Honor Roll is determined by the total number of points Honor Roll of the 16 specialties.

Rank	Hospital	Points	Specialties
1	Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore	30	15
2	Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston	29	15
3	Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.	28	15
4	Cleveland Clinic	26	13
5	Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles	25	14
6	New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell, N.Y.	22	12
7	UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco	20	11
8	Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston	18	12
9	Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.	18	10
10	Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia	17	12
11	Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis	16	11
12	UPMC-University of Pittsburgh Medical Center	14	8
13	University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle	13	9
14	University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, Ann Arbor	10	6
14	Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville	10	6
16	Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York	8	6
17	Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, Calif.	7	6