U.S. News & World Report has named UNC Children’s Hospital among the nation’s best children’s hospitals for the 15th consecutive year. Locally, UNC Children’s was ranked as the No. 2 children’s hospital in North Carolina and the No. 4 children’s hospital in the southeast.

Hospital specialties must be graded in the top 50 nationwide to be considered “nationally ranked.” UNC Children’s is nationally ranked in nine of 10 pediatric specialties, with two in the top 20: pediatric pulmonology and neurology/neurosurgery. Other specialties to receive national ranks include pediatric cancer, pediatric diabetes and pediatric orthopedics. Only 89 children’s hospitals across the country were ranked in at least one of the 10 pediatric specialties U.S. News & World Report evaluates.

“I cannot overstate how proud I am of the work being done by our team,” said Dr. Stephanie Duggins Davis, Physician-in-Chief for UNC Children’s. “Improving quality and bringing innovation to everything we do has enabled UNC Children’s to be nationally ranked across a wide variety of pediatric specialties.”

To create the rankings, U.S. News & World Report uses surveys of more than 15,000 pediatric specialists, in addition to other surveys which measure patient safety, infection prevention and adequacy of nurse staffing.

 

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