In its 2022-2023 Best Children’s Hospitals survey, U.S. News & World Report ranked Children’s of Alabama as the top children’s hospital in the Southeast, a tie for No. 1 in the region. Children’s remains the No. 1 children’s hospital in Alabama. U.S. News and World Report also ranks pediatric specialty services, and Children’s is ranked in the top 50 nationally in all 10 services, which include specialties such as cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, neonatology, neurology and neurosurgery, urology, and others.
Children’s and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Departments of Pediatrics and Surgery collaborated to submit the requested information. Children’s is the primary site for pediatric clinical and educational programs for the UAB School of Medicine.
U.S. News & World Report introduced the Best Children’s Hospitals rankings in 2007 to help families of sick children find the best medical care available. Children’s and UAB began participating during the 2010-2011 ranking cycle. The goal of the rankings is to offer families an exclusive look at quality-related information at the individual hospital level. To create the pediatric rankings, U.S. News & World Report gathers 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. In addition, part of each hospital’s score coms from surveys of more than 15,000 pediatric specialists who are asked where they would send the sickest children in their specialty.
