Children's Hospital ranked 4th in U.S.

The Denver Business Journal - 9:21 AM MDT
Denver, CO (August 24, 2007) -- The Children's Hospital in Denver ranks high on a list of the top pediatric facilities in the United States.

U.S. News & World Report on Friday released its first stand-alone ranking of children's hospitals, with Denver's in the No. 4 spot. The magazine ranked 30 hospitals.

U.S. News & World Report previously included children's hospitals in its annual ranking of America's best hospitals, which offered a rank based on reputation alone. The new rankings, which are included in the magazine's Sept. 3 issue, also relies on hospital performance and quality of care.

The top 10 hospitals are:
1. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2. Children's Hospital Boston
3. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
4. The Children's Hospital, Denver
5. Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland
6. Texas Children's Hospital, Houston
7. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
8. New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell
9. Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle
10. Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, Calif.
The Children's Hospital in Denver is preparing to relocate from uptown Denver to the former Fitzsimons Army Medical Center campus in Aurora.

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