Strong Memorial Hospital’s Neurology and Neurosurgery specialty program has been ranked among the top 50 in the
nation for 2017-2018 by U.S. News & World Report. The program ranked 39th among the nation’s
hospitals, and this is the seventh consecutive year it has been nationally ranked by U.S. News.
In June, UR
Medicine’s Golisano Children’s Hospital was
recognized as one of the nation’s best children’s hospitals in three specialty areas — Neonatology,
Nephrology, and Neurology and Neurosurgery — in the U.S. News & World Report’s Best
Children’s Hospital rankings.
For the 2017-18 adult rankings, U.S. News evaluated more than 4,500 U.S. hospitals; only 152 were ranked in at
least one specialty.
Eight Strong Memorial Hospital specialty programs earned High Performing ratings: Cardiology and Heart Surgery,
Diabetes and Endocrinology, Gastroenterology and GI Surgery, Geriatrics, Nephrology, Orthopaedics, Pulmonology, and
Urology.
U.S. News recognized hospitals that were high-performing across multiple areas of care and ranked them within
their states and by metropolitan areas. U.S. News rated Strong Memorial as the top hospital in the Rochester
Metro area and fourth among New York state hospitals.
U.S. News evaluates nearly 5,000 hospitals nationwide for its
Best Hospitals rankings; methodologies include objective measures such as patient survival, the number of
times a given procedure is
performed, infection rates, adequacy of nurse staffing and more.