CLEVELAND — Editor's Note: The video above is from a previous story on Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital published on May 13, 2022.
U.S. News & World Report has recognized Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital as one of the best in the nation according to their 2022-23 "Best Children's Hospitals" rankings.
Working in the umbrella of the Cleveland Clinic, which was ranked as the country's #2 hospital in 2021 by U.S. News, Cleveland Clinic Children's has earned top 50 rankings in 9 categories.
Specialty-Ranking:
- cancer-15
- cardiology and heart surgery-6
- diabetes and endocrinology-36
- gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery-13
- neonatology-10
- nephrology-29
- neurology and neurosurgery-40
- pulmonology and lung surgery-30
- urology-24
“We are privileged to once again be recognized by U.S. News & World Report,” said Karen Murray, M.D., chair of Cleveland Clinic Children’s. “These rankings reflect the hard work of our pediatric caregivers who strive to improve the health of our community’s children every day through world-class patient care, research, education and advocacy.”
Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital has been at the forefront of many clinical innovations and research in pediatrics over the past year, including:
- Performed a rare and complex lifesaving fetal surgery to remove a tumor attached to the heart of a 26-week-old fetus.
- Enrolled as a clinical trial site for an experimental form of treatment to ward off some of the effects of Hunter syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that damages tissues and organs.
- Published a study showing healthy diets reduce cardiovascular risk factors in overweight children.
- Began enrolling patients in a clinical trial that aims to work toward a cure for sickle cell disease, by changing the patient’s genetics.
- Reported findings from a study which showed a rise in pediatric heart failure related emergency department visits and primary heart failure hospitalizations. Called for continued surveillance and reductions of preventable risk factors.
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