McLean Hospital claimed the top spot this year from Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, which held the top spot in last year’s psychiatry ranking and now holds the No. 2 spot for psychiatry care.
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McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass.
Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston is ranked No. 3, and NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital – Columbia and Cornell in New York City is ranked No. 4 for psychiatry care this year, with no change from last year.
This year, UCSF Health–UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, grabbed the No. 5 spot on the list of best psychiatry hospitals, beating out Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA, Los Angeles, which held the No. 5 spot last year. Resnick is now No. 6 on the list.
Rounding out the top 10 psychiatry hospitals (in order) are Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; Yale–New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn.; Sheppard Pratt Hospital, Baltimore; and Menninger Clinic, Houston, and NYU Langone Hospitals, New York (tied for number 10).
“For patients considering their options for where to get care, the Best Hospitals rankings are designed to help them and their medical professionals identify hospitals that excel in the kind of care they may need,” Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor at U.S. News & World Report, said in a news release.
Mayo Clinic tops overall
In the overall 2022-2023 rankings and ratings, U.S. News & World Report compared more than 4,500 hospitals across 15 specialties and 20 procedures and conditions.
As reported by this news organization, in the overall rankings of best hospitals, the Mayo Clinic claimed the top spot on the honor roll for the seventh consecutive year, followed by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center at No. 2, and NYU Langone Hospitals at No. 3.
Cleveland Clinic in Ohio holds the No. 4 spot in the overall rankings, and Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, and UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles are tied for fifth place.
This year marks the 33rd edition of the magazine’s best hospitals rankings or hospitals overall and by key specialties.
According to a news release from U.S. News & World Report, the Best Hospitals rankings consider a variety of data provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, American Hospital Association, professional organizations, and medical specialists.
The full report for best hospitals, best specialty hospitals and methodology is available online.
A version of this article first appeared on Medscape.com.