Pennsylvania Hospital Named One of the Best Children’s Hospitals
When your child is sick, you definitely want the best children’s hospital available. As it turns out, one Pennsylvania hospital has been named among the best children’s hospitals in America.
The new study comes from US News and World Report. It’s their annual tally of the best children’s hospitals in America, this one for 2023-2024. “To create the pediatric rankings, we gather key clinical data from nearly 200 medical centers through a detailed survey that looks at measures such as patient safety, infection prevention and adequacy of nurse staffing,” they explain. “In addition, part of each hospital’s score is derived from surveys of more than 15,000 pediatric specialists who are asked where they would send the sickest children in their specialty. In 2023, only 89 children’s hospitals were ranked in at least one of the 10 pediatric specialties we evaluate.”
Best Hospitals For Pediatric Orthopedics: Pennsylvania Hospital is No. 1
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia ranked No. 1 on the list of the Best Children’s Hospitals for treating complex fractures, scoliosis, spina bifida and sports injuries in pediatric patients. No. 2 was Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and No. 3 was Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
Best Hospitals For Pediatric Diabetes & Endocrinology: Pennsylvania Hospital Makes the Cut
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia ranked No. 3 on the list of the Best Children’s Hospitals for pediatric diabetes and endocrinology. Those hospitals help their patients manage type 1 diabetes, weight disorders and hypothyroidism. That’s a great showing. Coming in at No. 2 was Texas Children’s Hospital, and No. 1 was a tie between Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and Boston Children’s Hospital.
Find US News and World Report’s full list of the best children’s hospitals in America here.
Pennsylvania: What's Our Earthquake Risk? Use This Interactive Map
More on Loss Ratios across the US
While you might think of a handful of cities who are in danger of earthquakes, and those are on the West Coast, there is earthquake activity all around. “Although most economic loss is concentrated along the West Coast, the distribution of relative earthquake risk, as measured by the AELR, is much broader and reinforces the fact that earthquakes are a national problem,” FEMA says. “Relatively high earthquake loss ratios are throughout the western and central United States (states within the NMSZ) and in the Charleston, South Carolina, area.”
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The Big 55
You’ve heard of the Big Four, right? In metal music. Anyway, the Big 55 are the cities that experience the most earthquake activity. “Fifty-five metropolitan areas, led by the Los Angeles (including Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Anaheim) and San Francisco (including San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley) Bay areas, account for 85% of the total AEL,” FEMA says.
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