Once again, Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic is receiving national accolades as the best in the U.S.

U.S. News & World Report’s annual ‘Best Hospital’ rankings have been released and the Rochester health care facility is number one.

The list according to U.S. News & World Report, “has been to help guide patients, in consultation with their doctors, to the right hospital when they need care.”  They also note that the coronavirus pandemic underscored the importance of high-quality health care, “and reinforced U.S. News’ long-standing commitment to help patients across the nation find the best hospital for their needs.”

The Best Hospitals list highlights 20 hospitals that excel across most or all types of care evaluated by U.S. News. Hospitals received points if they were nationally ranked in the 15 specialties – the more specialties and the higher their rank, the more points they got – and if they were rated high performing in any of 17 procedures and conditions. The top point-scorers made their honor roll.

According to the list, Mayo Clinic is nationally ranked in 14 adult and eight pediatric specialties, and rated high performing in one adult specialty and 16 procedures and conditions which helped it to the number one spot.

Other prominent hospitals on the list include the renowned Cleveland Clinic, UCLA Medical Center, Johns Hopkins and Massachusetts General in the top five.  The New York area had three make the list, with Chicago, LA and Boston each getting two.

U.S. News does this ranking each year as a tool that can help these patients find sources of especially skilled inpatient care.

Here is the list of U.S. News’ top twenty hospitals:

1. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

2. Cleveland Clinic.

3. UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles.

4. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.

5. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

6. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.

7. New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, New York.

8. NYU Langone Hospitals, New York.

9. UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco.

10. Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago.

11. University of Michigan Hospitals-Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor.

12. Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Stanford, California.

13. Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia.

14. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston.

15. Mayo Clinic-Phoenix.

16. Houston Methodist Hospital.

17. (tie) Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis.

17. (tie) Mount Sinai Hospital, New York.

19. Rush University Medical Center, Chicago.

20. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville