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Awards & Recognition

Johns Hopkins is consistently recognized as a leader in health care.

U.S.News & World Report Best Hospital Rankings
Nursing Magnet Designation
Consumer's Choice
Top Medical School

21 Years in a Row: The Johns Hopkins Hospital Tops
U.S. News & World Report "Honor Roll"

America's #1 Hospital 21 Years in a Row

Once more —and for the 21st year in a row — The Johns Hopkins Hospital has earned the top spot in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of more than 4,800 American hospitals, placing first in five medical specialties and in the top five in 10 others. For a complete list and methodology of rankings, please visit the U.S. News & World Report Web site.

Here are Hopkins' 2011 rankings:

#1		Ear, Nose & Throat
#1		Neurology and Neurosurgery
#1		Psychiatry
#1		Rheumatology
#1		Urology

#2		Gynecology
#2		Ophthalmology

#3		Cancer
#3		Cardiology & Heart Surgery
#3		Diabetes and Endocrinology
#3		Gastroenterology
#3		Geriatrics
#3		Nephrology

#4		Pulmonology

#5		Orthopedics

#15		Rehabilitation

Video: USNWR 2011

For the 21st year in a row, The Johns Hopkins Hospital has taken the top spot in U.S. News & World Report's annual rankings of American hospitals.

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Nursing Magnet Designation
In 2003, The Johns Hopkins Hospital became the first health care organization in Maryland to achieve the Magnet Recognition Program designation for excellence in nursing practice. Magnet Recognition was awarded again in 2008 for another five-year term. The highest honor bestowed by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, Magnet status affirms the evidenced-based practice and spirit of innovation and collaboration that characterizes nursing at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Consumer’s Choice
It’s not only a national and international reputation that counts. What local patients think is equally important. For 15 straight years, The Johns Hopkins Hospital has received the Consumer Choice Award for the Baltimore region from the National Research Corporation. NRC, a firm specializing in health care performance measurement, annually honors the hospitals that local consumers rate as having the best quality and image, based on a survey of more than 250,000 households in the contiguous 48 states and the District of Columbia. For 2010-2011, Hopkins also was rated as the top choice by consumers in the Bethesda, Md., area.

Top Medical School
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine continues to be recognized as one of the top medical schools in the nation. In the new 2012 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools, Johns Hopkins is ranked #3 overall among the 145 U.S. medical schools, in addition to receiving top-tier rankings in specialty areas. (See below). The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing is tied for first this year (up from #4 in 2007); the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health also ranked first, the same spot it attained in 2007.

The rankings are based on detailed statistical information that includes research activity (including NIH grants awarded), faculty resources and student selectivity, as well as quality assessments from surveys of experts at peer institutions.

For a complete list and methodology of the rankings, visit U.S.News & World Report.