Best hospitals for ophthalmology ranked

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Specialties, procedures, and conditions considered

With data obtained from surveys of ophthalmology specialists, U.S. News ranked the top 28 hospitals for ophthalmology in the United States. Hospitals that excelled in specialties, procedure, and condition ratings topped the list.

Some 5 percent of responders recommended the top 13 hospitals, and 1 percent of responders recommended the following 25.

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Specialties ranked

Some 16 specialty areas of care were considered, 12 of which were ranked and derived from data sources, such as Medicare, cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes and geriatrics, neurosurgery, orthopedics, urology, and more.

Specialty rankings, including ophthalmology, psychiatry, rehabilitation and rheumatology, were determined by expert opinion only, based on responses from 3 years of physician specialist surveys in which doctors were asked to name the hospitals they would be inclined to refer their sickest patients.

Rankings list the top 50 hospitals for complex care in each data driven specialty and roughly a dozen in expert opinion-based specialties.

Why rank?

U.S. News hopes these rankings can be used as a tool to help patients locate sources of especially skilled patient care, particularly those patients with distinctive care needs.

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Rank
Hospital
1
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute—University of Miami Hospitals and Clinics
2
Wills Eye Hospital, Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals
3
Wilmer Eye Institute, John Hopkins Hospital
4
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Massachusetts General Hospital
5
Stein and Doheny Eye Institutes, UCLA Medical Center
6
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
7
Duke University Hospital
8
Kellogg Eye Center—Michigan Medicine
9
UCSF Medical Center
10
Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic
11
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai
12
USC Roski Eye Institute
13
John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics
14
New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia and Cornell
15
OHSU Casey Eye Institute
16
Mayo Clinic
17
Byers Eye Institute, Sanford Health Care
18
Emory University Hospital
19
Scheie Eye Institute, Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian
20
Dean McGee Eye Institute, OU Medical Center
21
Cullen Eye Institute at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
22
UT Southwestern Medical Center
23
NYU Langone Hospitals
24
Barnes-Jewish Hospital
25
University of Illinois Hospital
26
Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital
27
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
28
UC San Diego-Shiley Eye Institiute
29
UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital
30
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
31
Tufts Medical Center
32
UC Davis Medical Center
33
UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside
34
Henry Ford Hospital
35
UAB Callahan Eye Hospital
36
Blanton Eye Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital
37
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
38
University of Wisconsin Hospitals
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