Rankings and Ratings

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. CHLA is a 365-bed nonprofit teaching hospital affiliated with University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine. Founded in 1901 in a small two-bedroom house, CHLA admitted just 14 children in its first year. By 1905,…

Children’s Hospital Colorado (Aurora). The first children’s hospitals in Colorado were summer tent hospitals for babies. At the time, the Denver mountain air was extolled as a cure for many diseases, so it made sense to treat children in canvas…

CHI St. Vincent Infirmary (Little Rock, Ark.). CHI St. Vincent Infirmary is a byproduct of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic — except that yellow fever never hit Little Rock that year. The wealthy Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hager vowed to…

Central DuPage Hospital (Winfield, Ill.). The Central DuPage Hospital Association, established in 1958, set out to restore a sanitarium in Winfield, Ill., to bring healthcare services closer to home. After the renovation, the sanitarium was named the Central DuPage Hospital,…

Cedars-Sinai (Los Angeles). Businessman Kaspare Cohn founded Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in 1902 in a two-story Victorian home. The 12-bed operation grew into the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital and in 1961 merged with Mount Sinai Hospital, which got its start as a…

Carle Foundation Hospital (Urbana, Ill.). This 345-bed nonprofit regional care hospital gets its name from Margaret Burt Carle Morris, an early settler of Urbana who donated $40,000 to the city to form The Urbana Memorial Hospital Association. When two physicians from…

Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston). Located in Boston’s Longwood Medical Area, the 793-bed Brigham and Women’s Hospital is a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, and includes more than 150 outpatient practices and more than 1,200 physicians. Brigham and Women’s partnered…

Boston Children’s Hospital. This 395-bed pediatric medical center, which counts 25,000 inpatient admissions and more than 26,500 surgeries annually and is ranked the No. 1 children’s hospital in the nation for 2014-15 by U.S. News & World Report, got its…

Bethesda North Hospital (Cincinnati). Bethesda North Hospital opened its doors in 1970 as a satellite facility for Bethesda Oak Hospital in Avondale, which was founded in 1896 by a German immigrant and Methodist Episcopal Church minister, Dr. Christian Golder. In…

Billings Clinic Hospital (Billings, Mont.). The Billings Clinic dates back to 1911 when Arthur J. Movius, MD, founded a general practice in Billings, Mont. His practice grew by one practitioner in 1915, then another in the 1920s and a fourth in…