Shands Hospital for Children at the University of Florida in Gainesville, has been recognized among the nation’s best in six medical specialties in the 2011-12 U.S. News Media Group’s Best Children’s Hospitals rankings released today.
Two of the interdisciplinary UF and Shands pediatric programs were ranked highest in the state – diabetes and endocrinology (14th nationally) and gastroenterology (38th nationally). Shands Hospital for Children also ranked 33rd in nephrology, 38th in gastroenterology, 39th in pulmonology, and 47th in neurology and neurosurgery, and tied for 49th in cardiology and heart surgery. Last year, Shands ranked for the first time in one specialty, diabetes and endocrinology.
“We are delighted and honored that this prestigious and rigorous process has ranked several of our programs so highly,” said Richard Bucciarelli, M.D., UF College of Medicine pediatrics chairman. “It is the great team of clinical caregivers and researchers at UF and Shands that allowed us to be recognized with many of the larger and longer-established programs for children in the nation.
The new rankings recognize the top 50 children’s hospitals in 10 specialties: cancer; cardiology and heart surgery; diabetes and endocrinology; gastroenterology; neonatology; nephrology; neurology and neurosurgery; orthopedics; pulmonology; and urology. Seventy-six hospitals are ranked in at least one specialty.
Now in its fifth year, Best Children’s Hospitals pulls together clinical and operational data from a lengthy survey, completed by the majority of the 177 hospitals asked to participate for the 2011-12 rankings.
For the full rankings and methodology, visit www.usnews.com/childrenshospital.
