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For the 21st consecutive year, The Johns Hopkins Hospital has taken the top spot in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of American hospitals, placing first in five medical specialties and in the top five in 10 others.

The Johns Hopkins Hospital ranked in the top 10 in 15 of the 16 specialty categories listed. In addition to landing in the #1 spot on the Honor Roll, the hospital ranked #1 in neurology and neurosurgery, urology, psychiatry, rheumatology, and ear, nose and throat; #2 in gynecology and ophthalmology;#3 in nephrology, diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology (digestive diseases), geriatrics, cardiology and heart surgery, and cancer; #4 in pulmonology (respiratory diseases); #5 in orthopedics; and #15 in rehabilitation.

Other hospital members of Johns Hopkins Medicine listed in U.S. News & World Report’s 2011-12 best hospital rankings include Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Howard County General Hospital, Suburban Hospital and Sibley Memorial Hospital. Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center was nationally ranked #13 in geriatrics and was ranked as high-performing in the specialties of diabetes and endocrinology, ear, nose and throat, gastroenterology, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology and urology for the Baltimore metro region. Howard County General Hospital was also ranked as a top-performing hospital in the Baltimore metro area for diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology, geriatrics, neurology and neurosurgery, pulmonology and urology. In the Washington, D.C., metro area, Suburban was listed as a high-performing hospital in ear, nose and throat, gastroenterology, geriatrics, orthopedics, pulmonology and urology, while Sibley was listed as high-performing in the areas of gynecology and orthopedics.