Shriners Hospitals for Children Ranked 6th in Country by U.S. News & World Report

The following information was provided by Shriners Hospitals for Children and included in a news release from the healthcare facility.

More information on the hospital rankings can be found at health.usnews.com and www.usnews.com.

Shriners Hospitals for Children® - St. Louis has been ranked as a leader in pediatric orthopaedics by U.S. News & World Report in the 2013-2014 rankings of children's hospitals in the United States.   

Shriners Hospitals for Children is co-listed as #6 in pediatric orthopaedics with Washington University as part of St. Louis Children’s Hospital’s listing. Being ranked in the magazine's annual survey is a distinction given to only 80 children's hospitals in the United States. The U.S. News rankings feature hospitals in each of 10 pediatric specialties -- cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology, neonatology, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology, and urology.

Chief of Staff Perry L. Schoenecker, M.D. said the ranking confirms that the partnership between the three entities brings the nation's best in orthopaedic care to children and families in St. Louis.

“I congratulate our physicians and staff members who consistently deliver on the promise of our mission to provide the highest quality of care to children within a compassionate, family-centered and collaborative care environment,” he said. 

Most of the physicians at Shriners Hospitals for Children are faculty members at Washington University School of Medicine, and the two organizations with St. Louis Children’s Hospital partner together to provide innovative and collaborative care for children with orthopaedic conditions.

Shriners stated that these rankings will also appear in the Best Hospitals print guide published by U.S. News, available on Amazon.com later this summer.