Top Specialized Hospitals - Neurosurgery

As part of Newsweek's commitment to cover all aspects of health, we've again partnered with global research firm Statista to rank the world's best specialized hospitals. Last year, we looked at the best facilities in 10 specialties: cardiology, cardiac surgery, oncology, endocrinology, neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedics, gastroenterology, pulmonology and pediatrics. This year we are proud to expand that to 11 specialties, with the addition of urology. The ranking features the top 300 hospitals for cardiology and oncology, the top 200 for pediatrics, the top 150 for cardiac surgery and endocrinology and the top 125 each in gastroenterology, orthopedics, neurology, neurosurgery, urology and pulmonology. And for the second year, Newsweek and Statista have developed a list of hospitals that best avail themselves of the most advanced technologies.

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Top Specialized Hospitals – Neurosurgery

Rank

Hospital

Department

City

Country

PROMs

1Mayo Clinic - RochesterNeurology and NeurosurgeryRochester, MNUnited States2New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and CornellNeurology & NeurosurgeryNew York, NYUnited States3National Hospital For Neurology and Neurosurgery - Queen SquareLondonUnited Kingdom4Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinKlinik für NeurochirurgieBerlinGermany5Cleveland ClinicNeurological InstituteCleveland, OHUnited States6Massachusetts General HospitalDepartment of NeurosurgeryBoston, MAUnited States7The Johns Hopkins HospitalDepartment of Neurology and NeurosurgeryBaltimore, MDUnited States8The Mount Sinai HospitalNeurosurgeryNew York, NYUnited States9AP-HP - Hôpital Universitaire Pitié SalpêtrièreService de NeurochirurgieParisFrance10Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterDepartment of NeurosurgeryNew York, NYUnited States11UCSF Medical CenterUCSF Neurosurgery ClinicSan Francisco, CAUnited States12The University of Tokyo HospitalDepartment of NeurosurgeryTokyoJapan13Universitätsklinikum HeidelbergNeurochirurgische KlinikHeidelbergGermany14Stanford Health Care - Stanford HospitalStanford NeurosurgeryStanford, CAUnited States15Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital & Medical CenterDepartment of NeurosurgeryPhoenix, AZUnited States16Brigham And Women's HospitalDepartment of NeurosurgeryBoston, MAUnited States17Mayo Clinic - PhoenixNeurology and NeurosurgeryPhoenix, AZUnited States18MD Anderson Cancer CenterNeurosurgery DepartmentHouston, TXUnited States19Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical CenterNeurology and NeurosurgeryBaltimore, MDUnited States20Karolinska UniversitetssjukhusetDepartment of NeurosurgerySolnaSweden21Fondazione I.R.C.C.S. Istituto Neurologico Carlo BestaDipartimento NeurochirurgiaMilanoItaly22Duke University HospitalDepartment of NeurosurgeryDurham, NCUnited States23NYU Langone HospitalsDepartment of NeurosurgeryNew York, NYUnited States24Montreal General Hospital - McGill University Health CentreNeurosurgery ClinicMontrealCanada25Maastricht UMC+NeurochirurgieMaastrichtThe Netherlands26Great Ormond Street HospitalNeurosurgery departmentLondonUnited Kingdom27King's College HospitalNeurosurgeryLondonUnited Kingdom28Lenox Hill HospitalDepartment of NeurosurgeryNew York, NYUnited States29Severance Hospital - Yonsei UniversityNeurosurgerySeoulSouth Korea30Hospital For Special SurgerySpine CenterNew York, NYUnited States31BP – A Beneficência Portuguesa de São PauloNeurocirurgiaSao PauloBrazil32Aalborg UniversitetshospitalNeurokirurgisk AfdelingAalborgDenmark33Northwestern Memorial HospitalDepartment of NeurosurgeryChicago, ILUnited States34Brigham And Women's Faulkner HospitalBrigham and Women's Comprehensive Spine CenterBoston, MAUnited States35Hospital Israelita Albert EinsteinEinstein Surgery CenterSao PauloBrazil36Hospital Alemão Oswaldo CruzCentro especializado em Tumores do Cérebro e ColunaSao PauloBrazil37Addenbrooke'sNeurosurgeryCambridgeUnited Kingdom38Gangnam Severance Hospital - Yonsei UniversityNeurosurgerySeoulSouth Korea39Medizinische Hochschule HannoverKlinik für NeurochirugieHannoverGermany40Hospital Universitario 12 de OctubreNeurocirugíaMadridSpain41Mayo Clinic - Health System In Eau ClaireNeurosurgeryEau Claire, WIUnited States42Sheba Medical CenterDepartment of NeurosurgeryRamat GanIsraelx43AP-HM - Hôpital de la TimoneNeurochirurgieMarseilleFrance44Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterDepartment of NeurosurgeryLos Angeles, CAUnited States45Hospital General Universitario Gregorio MarañónNeurocirugíaMadridSpain46Hospital for Sick ChildrenDivision of NeurosurgeryTorontoCanada47Universitätsklinikum BonnNeurochirurgieBonnGermany48UCLA Health – Santa Monica Medical CenterDepartment of NeurosurgerySanta Monica, CAUnited States49Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania - Penn PresbyterianDepartment of NeurosurgeryPhiladelphia, PAUnited States50Toronto General - University Health NetworkKrembil Neuroscience Centre - Division of NeurosurgeryTorontoCanada

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METHODOLOGY
The World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2023 ranking awards the leading hospitals worldwide in 11 medical fields: cardiology, cardiac surgery, oncology, endocrinology, neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedics, gastroenterology, pulmonology, pediatrics and (for the first time) urology.
The lists are based on a global survey, to which over 40,000 medical professionals (doctors, health care professionals and hospital managers) were invited.
The ranking features the top 300 hospitals for cardiology and oncology, the top 200 for pediatrics, the top 150 for cardiac surgery and endocrinology and the top 125 for neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedics, gastroenterology, pulmonology and urology. The list is based on three data sources:

1. WORLDWIDE ONLINE SURVEY:
During the survey period from July to August 2022, thousands of experts were invited to an online survey in cooperation with Newsweek. Participants were asked to recommend hospitals based on their expertise in one primary medical field (e.g., cardiology for cardiologists) and were able to choose an optional secondary area of expertise in which they are also knowledgeable (e.g., due to frequent cooperation with other medical fields).

2. ACCREDITATION DATA (NEW):
Several accreditations/certifications have been added to the scoring model (where available). Accreditations/certifications reflect a range of structural and/or quality requirements which are now relevant for the specialized rankings.

3. PROMs SURVEY (NEW):
In 2022, Newsweek and Statista, together with an expert board, designed a survey regarding the status quo of implementation and use of generic and condition specific PROMs (patient reported outcome measures) hospital settings. This survey was sent to hospitals, collecting information from them directly. Newsweek and Statista understand the importance of this topic, adding the PROMs score to the scoring model for the first time.

Hospitals that specialize in more than one medical field received specific recommendation scores for each medical field based on the respective recommendations. Therefore, one hospital can be represented in more than one list if it receives enough recommendations in each medical field (up to being represented in all 11 lists).

Scoring Model

▸ RECOMMENDATIONS FROM PEERS (primary weighted 70%, secondary weighted 30%. Total weight 92.5%)
▸ ACCREDITATIONS/CERTIFICATIONS (5%)
▸ PROMs SURVEY (2.5%)

Primary recommendations from experts in each medical field account for 70% of each hospital's preliminary reputation score. Secondary recommendations from medical professionals with knowledge in more than one medical field received a weight of 30% toward the preliminary reputation score.
From July to August 2022 Statista invited over 40,000 medical professionals (mostly doctors, but also hospital managers and other health care professionals) in over 20 countries to an online survey. The survey was also promoted on newsweek.com. Participants were invited via email.
Participants were asked to recommend hospitals in their own field of expertise and were able to recommend hospitals of a secondary field. Recommendations for their own employer/hospital were not allowed. A score was assigned to each facility based on the number of weighted recommendations.For the first time, accreditations were used as an additional element of the scoring model (where available). The following accreditations/certifications reflect a range of structural and/or quality requirements which are now relevant for the specialized rankings:

▸CARF International(Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities)
▸IAC (Intersocietal Accreditation Commission)
▸JCI (Joint Commission International)

In addition to general hospital certifications, any available accreditations/certifications relevant to specific medical fields (e.g., pediatric specialty program for pediatrics, brain injury specialty program for neurology) were used as well.
For the first time, a PROMs score has been added to the scoring model of this year's edition of the ranking. In summer 2022, Newsweek and Statista reached out to hospitals and conducted a survey about the implementation and use of PROMs.
Patient reported outcome measurements are defined as standardized, validated questionnaires completed by patients to measure their perception of their functional well-being and quality of life. The purpose of the PROMs survey is to determine the status quo of implementation of generic and condition specific PROMs in hospital settings, audits and reporting of the data, and to determine whether the PROMs data is used to optimize the care process and to support therapeutic decisions in real-time.
In cooperation with a panel of experts, a grading system for the different questions was built to determine a PROMs Score. Only hospitals which achieved a minimum of 70% (of the maximum 100% score) were eligible to be graded on the PROMs score curve.

A global board of renowned experts provided guidance and feedback in the design of the PROMs survey:
Prof. Dr. David Bates , Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Gary Kaplan, Senior Advisor and Senior Vice President, CommonSpirit Health
Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Meier, Director, Department of Internal medicine, University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland
Dr. Eyal Zimlichman, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Sheba Medical Center, Israel
Prof. Dr. Gregory Katz, Chair of Innovation Management & Value in Health, University of Paris Medical School, France
Dr. med. Jens Deerberg Wittram CEO, Romed Kliniken, Germany

The rankings are composed exclusively of hospitals that are eligible regarding the scope described here. A mention in the ranking is a positive recognition based on peer recommendations and publicly available data sources at the time. The ranking is the result of an elaborate process which, due to the interval of data collection and analysis, is a reflection of the last calendar year. Furthermore, events preceding or following the period August 17,2021 to August 17, 2022 and/or pertaining to individual persons affiliated/associated with the facilities were not included in the metrics. As such, the results of this ranking should not be used as the sole source of information for future deliberations. The information provided in this ranking should be considered in conjunction with other available information about hospitals or, if possible, accompanied by a visit to a facility. The quality of hospitals that are not included in the rankings is not disputed.

You can download the full methodology here.