Cleveland Clinic Children’s Among Nation’s Best Children’s Hospitals

Cleveland Clinic Children’s is proud to be ranked as a national leader in clinical care by U.S. News & World Report in its 2018-2019 edition of “Best Children’s Hospitals.”

Ten out of 10 specialties earned national recognition this year: cancer (23), cardiology & heart surgery (26), diabetes & endocrinology (39), gastroenterology (23), neonatology (50), nephrology (49), neurology & neurosurgery (24), orthopedics (50), pulmonology (32) and urology (42).

Cleveland Clinic Children’s highlights over the past year include the following:

• Achieving a 100 percent success rate in curing sickle cell disease and thalassemia with bone marrow transplants.
• Launching a pediatric heart affiliation with Boston Children’s Hospital through Cleveland Clinic’s National Network.
• Offering integrative medicine approaches to treating pain in children without opioids.
• Opening its first in-school medical clinic at Lakewood High School in Lakewood, Ohio.
• Becoming the first in Northeast Ohio to provide families live webcam access to their NICU infants.
• Celebrating the 25th anniversary of its Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

According to U.S. News, the “Best Children’s Hospital” rankings score the top 50 children’s hospitals in 10 specialties, based on clinical data and an annual survey of pediatric specialists. The rankings methodology factors in patient outcomes, such as mortality and infection rates, as well as available clinical resources and compliance with best practices.

“Everything we do is aimed at making children healthier,” says Rita Pappas, MD, Interim Chair of Cleveland Clinic Children’s. “We believe that our patients deserve the most innovative care that we can provide. Our pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists are passionately driven to improve outcomes with the latest evidence-based treatments and state-of-the-art technologies.”

The “Best Children’s Hospitals” rankings are currently published online and featured in U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Hospitals 2019” guidebook, available in stores late September.