US News & World Report Releases Top Hospital List
WASHINGTON, DC-US News & World Report has published their list of "honor roll" American hospitals. The top ten listed are as follows:
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
Jay Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland
UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis
University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Mich.
University of California, San Francisco Medical Center
Stanford University Hospital, Stanford, Calif.
For more information on how what criteria were used to select these hospitals, and more information, visit: www.usnews.com.
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