U.S. News & World Report's Best Children's Hospitals for Neurology & Neurosurgery 2020-21 was published June 15, ranking 50 centers for pediatric neurosurgery and serious neurological conditions.
Survival after complex surgery, surgical complications, infection prevention and the availability of such services as specialized epilepsy treatment and rehabilitation accounted for most of each hospital's pediatric neurology and neurosurgery score. Click here for more information about how the hospitals are ranked.
Here are the top 20 children's hospitals for neurology and neurosurgery:
1. Boston Children's Hospital
2. Texas Children's Hospital (Houston)
3. Children's National Hospital (Washington, D.C.)
4. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
5. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
6. Nationwide Children's Hospital (Columbus)
7. St. Louis Children's Hospital-Washington University)
8. Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford (Palo Alto, Calif.)
9. Children's Hospital Los Angeles
10. Children's Hospital Colorado (Aurora)
11. Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
12. UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals (San Francisco and Oakland)
13. Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
14. UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
15. Seattle Children's Hospital
16. Johns Hopkins Children's Center (Baltimore)
17. Rady Children's Hospital (San Diego)
18. Children's Medical Center Dallas
19. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (New York City)
20. C.S. Mott Children's Hospital-Michigan Medicine (Ann Arbor)