NEwxguy's WunderBlog

We are number one in hospital care.

Displacing Johns Hopkins, Mass General is No. 1 for the first time. It marks the end of a 21-year reign for Hopkins that started in 1991, the year after U.S. News began publishing Best Hospitals. Another first: Indiana University Health is new to the Honor Roll.

Rank Hospital Points Specialties
1 Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 30 16
2 Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore 30 15
3 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. 28 15
4 Cleveland Clinic 27 14
5 Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles 20 13
6 Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis 20 12
7 New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell, N.Y. 18 11
8 Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. 17 11
9 Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston 17 10
10 UPMC-University of Pittsburgh Medical Center 16 9
11 NYU Langone Medical Center, New York 11 8
12 Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago 10 10
13 UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco 9 7
14 Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York 9 6
15 Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 8 7
16 Indiana University Health, Indianapolis 7 6
17 University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, Ann Arbor 6 6

...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS
EVENING...

* HEAT INDEX VALUES...UP TO 104 DUE TO TEMPERATURES IN THE MID
AND UPPER 90S...AND DEWPOINTS NEAR 70.