Boston guns Kyle Denhoff, center, and Trevor Baptiste visit Hannah at the Boston Children's Hospital in June. U.S. News & World Report has just listed the hospital as the best children's hospital in the country.(Photo: Darren McCollester, Getty Images for Boston Children)

The Best Children's Hospitals US News & World Report released their top 10 high quality centers and best hospitals by specialty Tuesday.

Boston Children's Hospital finished at the top of the 2018-19 honor chart, followed by the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the Philadelphia Children's Hospital – the same three hospitals were at the top of the list last year.

US News & World Report has also published hospital rankings in these specialties: pediatric cancer, pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery, pediatric diabetes and endocrinology, pediatric gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery, neonatalogy, pediatric neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedic pediatrics, pediatric pneumology and pediatric urology.

RTI International, a North Carolina-based research and consulting firm, collected and analyzed data from nearly 200 medical centers as well as surveys of more than 11,000 specialist pediatricians to create the report. Rankings are based on measures such as clinical outcomes, mortality and infection rates, staff adequacy and compliance with best practices, to name a few.

U.S. News has classified children's hospitals since 2006.

These are the best children's hospitals on the board of honor:

1. Boston Children's Hospital
2. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
3. Philadelphia Children's Hospital
4. Texas Children's Hospital
5. National Children's Medical Center
6. Los Angeles Children's Hospital
7. National Children's Hospital
8. Johns Hopkins Children's Center
9. Colorado Children's Hospital
10. Ann and Robert H. Lurie Chicago Children's Hospital

These are the five best hospitals for children in selected specialties:

Pediatric cancer

1. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
2. Philadelphia Children's Hospital
3. Dana-Farber / Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Treatment Center
4. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
5. National Children's Hospital

Pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery

1. Texas Children & # 39; s Hospital
2. Boston Children's Hospital
3. Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children & # 39; s Chicago Hospital
4. C.S. Mott Children's Hospital-Michigan Medicine
5. Los Angeles Children's Hospital

Pediatric orthopedics

1. Boston Children's Hospital
2. Philadelphia Children's Hospital
3. Children's Medical Center Dallas-Texas Scottish Rite Children's Hospital
4. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
5. Los Angeles Children's Hospital

See the full ranking on US News & World Report.

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