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How Did CMS Rate US News'
20 Honor Roll Hospitals?
By Heather Punke
U
.S. News & World Report released its 2016-17
hospital rankings Aug. 2, roughly a week on
the heels of CMS releasing its Overall Hospital
Quality Star Rating program. Just one of the 20 hospi-
tals on U.S. News' Honor Roll received a five-star rating
from CMS as well — and three received just two stars.
Below, the 20 Honor Roll hospitals are listed in rank or-
der from U.S. News, along with their overall star rating
from CMS.
1. Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.) — 5 stars
2. Cleveland Clinic — 4 stars
3. Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston) — 4 stars
4. Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore) — no rating
available. Maryland hospitals were not eligible for an
overall rating because Medicare does not collect the
necessary data, according to Kaiser Health News
5. UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles) — 3 stars
6. NewYork-Presbyterian University Hospital of Colum-
bia and Cornell — 4 stars
7. UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco) — 3 stars
8. Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago) — 3 stars
9. Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn
Presbyterian (Philadelphia) — 4 stars
10. NYU Langone Medical Center — 4 stars
11. Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University
(St. Louis) — 2 stars
12. UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside (Pittsburgh) — 2 stars
13. Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston) — 3 stars
14. Stanford Health Care-Stanford (Calif.) Hospital — 4 stars
15. Mount Sinai Hospital (New York City) — 3 stars
16. Duke University Hospital (Durham, N.C.) — 4 stars
17. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles) — 4 stars
18. University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Cen-
ters (Ann Arbor) — 3 stars
19. Houston Methodist Hospital — 4 stars
20. University of Colorado Hospital (Aurora) — 2 stars n