
World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2022
As part of Newsweek's long standing commitment to cover all aspects of health, we've again partnered with global research firm Statista to rank the world's best specialized hospitals.
Last year, we looked at the best facilities in six specialities: cardiology, oncology, endocrinology, neurology, gastroenterology and orthopedics. This year we are proud to expand that to ten specialities. The ranking features the top 250 hospitals for cardiology and oncology, the top 150 for cardiac surgery and pediatrics and the top 125 each in endocrinology, gastroenterology, orthopedics, neurology, neurosurgery and pulmonology.
If you or a loved one needs specialized care in one of those areas, you'll want to know which hospitals or state of the art facilities have the most accomplished physicians and diagnosticians and offer the highest level of care. We hope that you will find our ranking helpful.

- Best Specialized Hospitals 2022 - Cardiology
- Best Specialized Hospitals 2022 - Cardiac Surgery
- Best Specialized Hospitals 2022 - Endocrinology
- Best Specialized Hospitals 2022 - Gastroenterology
- Best Specialized Hospitals 2022 - Neurology
- Best Specialized Hospitals 2022 - Neurosurgery
- Best Specialized Hospitals 2022 - Oncology
- Best Specialized Hospitals 2022 - Orthopedics
- Best Specialized Hospitals 2022 - Pediatrics
- Best Specialized Hospitals 2022 - Pulmonology
Rank | Hospital | Department | City | Country |
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1 | New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell | Neurosurgery Services | New York, NY | United States |
2 | Mayo Clinic - Rochester | Neurology and Neurosurgery | Rochester, MN | United States |
3 | National Hospital For Neurology and Neurosurgery - Queen Square | London | United Kingdom | |
4 | Massachusetts General Hospital | Department of Neurosurgery | Boston, MA | United States |
5 | Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin | Klinik für Neurochirurgie | Berlin | Germany |
6 | The Johns Hopkins Hospital | Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery | Baltimore, MD | United States |
7 | Cleveland Clinic | Neurological Institute | Cleveland, OH | United States |
8 | The Mount Sinai Hospital | Neurosurgery | New York, NY | United States |
9 | AP-HP - Hôpital Universitaire Pitié Salpêtrière | Service de Neurochirurgie | Paris | France |
10 | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | Department of Neurosurgery | New York, NY | United States |
11 | UCSF Medical Center | UCSF Neurosurgery Clinic | San Francisco, CA | United States |
12 | The University of Tokyo Hospital | Department of Neurosurgery | Tokyo | Japan |
13 | Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg | Neurochirurgische Klinik | Heidelberg | Germany |
14 | Brigham And Women's Hospital | Department of Neurosurgery | Boston, MA | United States |
15 | Stanford Health Care - Stanford Hospital | Department of Neurosurgery | Stanford, CA | United States |
16 | Dignity Health - St Joseph's Hospital And Medical Center | Barrow Neurological Institute | Phoenix, AZ | United States |
17 | Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center | Department of Neurosurgery | Baltimore, MD | United States |
18 | Mayo Clinic - Phoenix | Neurology and Neurosurgery | Phoenix, AZ | United States |
19 | Fondazione I.R.C.C.S. Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta | Dipartimento Neurochirurgia | Milano | Italy |
20 | MD Anderson Cancer Center | Neurosurgery Department | Houston, TX | United States |
21 | Duke University Hospital | Department of Neurosurgery | Durham, NC | United States |
22 | Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset | Neurologmottagningen | Solna | Sweden |
23 | NYU Langone Hospitals | Department of Neurosurgery | New York, NY | United States |
24 | Montreal General Hospital - McGill University Health Centre | Neurosurgery Clinic | Montreal | Canada |
25 | Academisch Ziekenhuis Maastricht | Neurochirurgie | Maastricht | The Netherlands |
26 | Severance Hospital - Yonsei University | Neurosurgery | Seoul | South Korea |
27 | Great Ormond Street Hospital | Neurosurgery department | London | United Kingdom |
28 | Lenox Hill Hospital | Department of Neurosurgery | New York, NY | United States |
29 | Hospital For Special Surgery | Spine Center | New York, NY | United States |
30 | King's College Hospital | Neurosurgery | London | United Kingdom |
31 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital | Department of Neurosurgery | Chicago, IL | United States |
32 | BP – A Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo | Neurocirurgia | Sao Paulo | Brazil |
33 | Aalborg Universitetshospital | Neurokirurgisk Afdeling | Aalborg | Denmark |
34 | Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz | Centro especializado em Tumores do Cérebro e Coluna | Sao Paulo | Brazil |
35 | Brigham And Women's Faulkner Hospital | Brigham and Women's Comprehensive Spine Center | Boston, MA | United States |
36 | Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein | Einstein Surgery Center | Sao Paulo | Brazil |
37 | Medizinische Hochschule Hannover | Klinik für Neurochirugie | Hannover | Germany |
38 | Addenbrooke's | Neurosurgery | Cambridge | United Kingdom |
39 | Gangnam Severance Hospital - Yonsei University | Neurosurgery | Seoul | South Korea |
40 | Sheba Medical Center | Department of Neurosurgery | Ramat Gan | Israel |
41 | Hospital for Sick Children | Division of Neurosurgery | Toronto | Canada |
42 | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | Department of Neurosurgery | Los Angeles, CA | United States |
43 | Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre | Neurocirugía | Madrid | Spain |
44 | Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón | Servicio de Neurocirugía | Madrid | Spain |
45 | Mayo Clinic - Health System In Eau Claire | Neurosurgery | Eau Claire, WI | United States |
46 | Universitätsklinikum Bonn | Neurochirurgie | Bonn | Germany |
47 | Toronto General - University Health Network | Krembil Neuroscience Centre - Division of Neurosurgery | Toronto | Canada |
48 | AP-HM - Hôpital de la Timone | Neurochirurgie | Marseille | France |
49 | Universitätsklinikum Freiburg | Klinik für Neurochirurgie | Freiburg | Germany |
50 | Nagoya University Hospital | Department of Neurosurgery | Nagoya | Japan |
51 | CHU Bordeaux - Groupe hospitalier Pellegrin | Service de Neurochirurgie | Bordeaux | France |
52 | Charing Cross Hospital | Neurosurgery | London | United Kingdom |
53 | Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania - Penn Presbyterian | Department of Neurosurgery | Philadelphia, PA | United States |
54 | UCLA Health – Santa Monica Medical Center | Department of Neurosurgery | Santa Monica, CA | United States |
55 | Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham | Neurology & Neurosurgery | Birmingham | United Kingdom |
56 | Houston Methodist Hospital | Department of Neurosurgery | Houston, TX | United States |
57 | A.O. Ospedali Riuniti Marche Nord - Presidio San Salvatore Centro | Neurochirurgia | Pesaro | Italy |
58 | AP-HP - Hôpital Lariboisière | Neurochirurgie | Paris | France |
59 | Kyoto University Hospital | Department of Neurology | Kyoto | Japan |
60 | Keio University Hospital | Division of Neurosurgery | Tokyo | Japan |
61 | Ospedale San Raffaele - Gruppo San Donato | Neurochirurgia | Milano | Italy |
62 | Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío | Neurocirugía | Sevilla | Spain |
63 | Hospital Universitario La Paz | Servicio de Neurocirugía | Madrid | Spain |
64 | Boston Children's Hospital | Department of Neurosurgery | Boston, MA | United States |
65 | Emory University Hospital | Department of Neurosurgery | Atlanta, GA | United States |
66 | Jefferson Health - Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals | Department of Neurological Surgery | Philadelphia, PA | United States |
67 | Akita Kousei Medical Center | Department for Neurosurgery | Akita | Japan |
68 | University of Michigan Hospitals - Michigan Medicine | Department of Neurosurgery | Ann Arbor, MI | United States |
69 | Abbott Northwestern Hospital | Abbott Northwestern's Neuroscience Institute | Minneapolis, MN | United States |
70 | Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois | Service de neurochirugie | Lausanne | Switzerland |
71 | Akademiska Sjukhuset | Neurokirurgavdelning 85 E | Uppsala | Sweden |
72 | Hospital Sirio Libanes | Neurologia | Sao Paulo | Brazil |
73 | Hospital das Clinicas da Universidade de Sao Paulo | Neurocirurgia | Sao Paulo | Brazil |
74 | University of Virginia Medical Center | Department of Neurosurgery | Charlottesville, VA | United States |
75 | Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Department of Neurological Surgery | Nashville, TN | United States |
76 | Changi General Hospital | Department of Surgery | Singapore | Singapore |
77 | Royal Melbourne Hospital - Parkville | Brain, spine & nerves surgery service | Parkville | Australia |
78 | University of Washington Medical Center | Department of Neurological Surgery | Seattle, WA | United States |
79 | Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center | Neuroscience Institute | Houston, TX | United States |
80 | Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda | Neuroscience Department | Milano | Italy |
81 | Osaka University Hospital | Neurosurgery | Osaka | Japan |
82 | Rush University Medical Center | Neurology and Neurosurgery Services | Chicago, IL | United States |
83 | Centre hospitalier universitaire Lille | Neurochirurgie générale adulte | Lille Cedex | France |
84 | Kantō Central Hospital of the Mutual Aid Association of Public School Teachers | Department for Neurosurgery | Tokyo | Japan |
85 | Baylor University Medical Center | Baylor Neuroscience Center | Dallas, TX | United States |
86 | University of Miami Hospital | Neurosurgery | Miami, FL | United States |
87 | A.C. Camargo Cancer Center | Departamento Neurocirurgia | Sao Paulo | Brazil |
88 | Mount Sinai Beth Israel | Neurosurgery | New York, NY | United States |
89 | Texas Children's Hospital | Neurosurgery | Houston, TX | United States |
90 | Aizawa Hospital | Neurosurgery | Matsumoto | Japan |
91 | Hokkaido University Hospital | Neurosurgery | Hokkaido | Japan |
92 | Azienda Ospedaliera di Rilievo Nazionale San Giuseppe Moscati | Neurochirurgia | Avellino | Italy |
93 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences - Delhi | Department of Neurosurgery | Delhi | India |
94 | UCLA Health – Ronald Reagan Medical Center | UCLA Neurosurgery | Los Angeles, CA | United States |
95 | Universitätsklinikum Köln | Zentrum für Neurochirurgie | Köln | Germany |
96 | Penn State Health - Milton S. Hershey Medical Center | Neurosurgery | Hershey, PA | United States |
97 | Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Brain & Spine Institue | Downers Grove, IL | United States |
98 | University of California - Davis Medical Center | Department of Neurological Surgery | Sacramento, CA | United States |
99 | Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital | Department of Neurosurgery | Tokyo | Japan |
100 | Tohoku University Hospital | Neurosurgery | Sendai | Japan |
101 | Tokyo Medical And Dental University - Medical Hospital | Neurosurgery | Tokyo | Japan |
102 | Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Sant'Andrea | UOC Neurochirurgia | Roma | Italy |
103 | Universitätsspital Zürich | Klinik für Neurochirurgie | Zurich | Switzerland |
104 | Arkansas Children's Hospital | Neurosurgery Clinic | Little Rock, AR | United States |
105 | Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital | Department of Neurosurgery | Atlanta, GA | United States |
106 | UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh | Brain Care Institute | Pittsburgh, PA | United States |
107 | Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt | Klinik für Neurochirurgie | Frankfurt am Main | Germany |
108 | Ospedale Borgo Trento | NEUROCHIRURGIA A | Verona | Italy |
109 | Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne | Pôle Neuro Sainte-Anne | Paris Cedex 14 | France |
110 | Bethesda Spital | Neurochirurgische & Orthopädische Wirbelsäulenchirurgie | Basel | Switzerland |
111 | Universitätsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz | Neurochirurgischen Klinik und Poliklinik | Mainz | Germany |
112 | Universitätsklinikum Erlangen | Neurochirurgie | Erlangen | Germany |
113 | Barnes-Jewish Hospital | Neurosurgery Department | Saint Louis, MO | United States |
114 | Clinica Universidad de Navarra | Departamento de Neurocirugía | Pamplona/Iruña | Spain |
115 | Nihon University Hospital | Neurosurgery | Tokyo | Japan |
116 | Allgemeines Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien - Medizinischer Universitätscampus | Univ. Klinik für Neurochirurgie | Wien | Austria |
117 | Asklepios Klinik Altona | Neurochirurgie | Hamburg | Germany |
118 | Helsinki University Hospital | Helsinki University Hospital Neurosurgery Clinic | Helsinki | Finland |
119 | ULB - Hôpital Erasme | Neurochirurgie | Brussels | Belgium |
120 | Agaplesion Diakonieklinikum Rotenburg | Neurochirurgische Klinik | Rotenburg (Wümme) | Germany |
121 | Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center | Neurosurgery | Los Angeles, CA | United States |
122 | University of Utah Hospital | Neurosurgery Services | Salt Lake City, UT | United States |
123 | Harborview Medical Center | Neurological Surgery Clinic | Seattle, WA | United States |
124 | Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal | Neurochirurgie - Clinique | Montreal | Canada |
125 | Hospital Clínico San Carlos | Neurocirugía | Madrid | Spain |
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METHODOLOGY
The 2022 World's Best Specialized Hospitals is based on a global survey of medical professionals. The recommendation score is based on two sub-scores, for primary recommendations and secondary recommendations. In cooperation with Newsweek, Statista invited over 40,000 medical experts (medical doctors, healthcare professionals, hospital managers and directors) in over 20 countries to an online survey. Additionally, experts from all over the world were able to participate in the "World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2022" survey on newsweek.com. The data were collected from June to August 2021.
Participants were asked to recommend and rank hospitals based on their expertise in one primary medical field (e.g. cardiology for cardiologists) and were able to choose an optional secondary area of expertise. Secondary recommendations were given a lower weight. The questionnaire did not suggest a list of hospitals and respondents were free to suggest any hospital they deemed recommendable (aided by an autocomplete function for convenience). Statista performed plausibility checks on all data to prevent self-nomination.
A preliminary reputation score was calculated for every hospital based on the weighted recommendations in each medical field. The preliminary reputation score was used to generate the preliminary lists for the ten medical fields. Hospitals that specialize in more than one field received specific scores for each field based on recommendations. One hospital can be represented in more than one list. The preliminary lists were presented to a global expert board, which serves in an advisory role for validation.
You can download the full methodology here.