US News & World Report ranked 5,189 hospitals -- only 176 made it on this year's list of America's Best Hospitals 2006. Of those 176, only 14 hospitals are on the Honor Roll. Johns Hopkins Hospital made the number one spot, the Mayo Clinic came in at number two and The Cleveland Clinic claims the third position. Wonder where your hospital ranks? Check Best Hospitals 2006.
Hospitals were also ranked by specialty. 52 hospitals specializing in cancer were ranked. Here are the top ten:
- Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center, New York
- University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
- Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
- Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
- Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, Boston
- University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle
- Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.
- University of Chicago Hospitals
- UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
- University of California, San Francisco Medical Center
