U.S. News Ranks The Children’s Hospital Among Top Five in Nation

DENVER, CO – August 23, 2007 – The Children’s Hospital has been ranked fourth in U.S.News & World Report’s first stand-alone “America’s Best Children’s Hospitals” issue which features a detailed ranking of the finest pediatric facilities in the United States. No other pediatric hospital in the western United States made the top five.

The Children’s Hospital has been ranked nationally by U.S.News & World Report every year since its 1993 inception. This year’s ranking is a significant leap from the hospital’s seventh place ranking in 2006. The exclusive data will be published in the magazine’s September 3 issue, on newsstands Monday, August 27, and is available online at health.usnews.com/pediatrics.

While, in the past, pediatric hospitals have been ranked based on reputation alone in the magazine's annual America’s Best Hospitals issue, this expanded children's hospital ranking is based not only on reputation, but also on data and statistics about hospital performance and quality of care.

“We are extremely pleased to be recognized yet again by these prestigious national rankings,” said Jim Shmerling, DHA, president and CEO of The Children’s Hospital. “This national honor casts a bright light on the extraordinary work our staff, physicians and volunteers perform every day and night on behalf of children.”

While U.S. News’s previous pediatric hospital rankings were based on reputation alone, this expanded version is based on a new and improved methodology, which weighed a three-part mix of reputation, death rate, and such care-related factors as volume, nursing care, advanced technology and recognition by outside organizations. Read a detailed description of the methodology.

The Children’s Hospital offers numerous dedicated hospital-based programs that are unique to the region as well as locations in Aurora, Broomfield, Littleton, Parker, Westminster, Centennial and Pueblo. A new location, The Children’s Hospital at Saint Joseph, will open in mid-September, prior to the main hospital’s move to its new location at E. Colfax and I-225.

Children’s has been noted for leading programs in liver transplants, oncology, eating disorders, heart programs  and rural outreach to prevent childhood injuries.

Founded in 1908, The Children’s Hospital is a leading pediatric network entirely devoted to the health and wellbeing of children. Continually recognized as one of the nation’s outstanding hospitals by U.S. News & World Report and Child Magazine, The Children’s Hospital is known both for its nationally and internationally recognized medical and research programs as well as outstanding everyday care for Denver area kids. With more than 1,000 healthcare professionals representing the full spectrum of pediatric specialties, The Children’s Hospital Network of Care includes its main campus, twelve Children’s Care Centers and more than 400 outreach clinics.     

America’s Best Children’s Hospitals, 2007

1. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2. Children's Hospital Boston
3. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
4. The Children's Hospital, Denver
5. Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland
6. Texas Children's Hospital, Houston
7. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
8. New York-Presbyterian Univ. Hosp. of Columbia and Cornell
9. Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle
10. Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto , CA
11. Children's National Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
12. Columbus Children's Hospital
13. Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
14. Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
15. St. Louis Children's Hospital
16. UCSF Children's Hospital, San Francisco
17. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
18. Primary Children's Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT  
19. Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.
20. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis
21. Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA, Los Angeles
22. University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor
23. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville
24. Long Island Jewish Med. Center, New Hyde Park, NY
25. Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago
26. Miami Children's Hospital
27. Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, Minneapolis
28. Children's Medical Center Dallas
29. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
30. Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

- U.S.News & World Report