Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford in Palo Alto, CA is ranked nationally in 10 pediatric specialties. Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford is a 257-bed children's general facility with 13,644 admissions in the most recent year reported. It performed 3,724 annual inpatient and 4,455 outpatient surgeries.
To help patients decide where to receive care, U.S. News evaluates data on nearly 5,000 hospitals in 16 adult specialties, 9 adult procedures and conditions and 10 pediatric specialties. To be nationally ranked in a specialty, a hospital must excel in caring for the sickest, most medically complex patients. The ratings in procedures and conditions, by contrast, focus on typical Medicare patients. Hospitals that do well in multiple areas of adult care may be ranked in their state and metropolitan area. Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford is ranked nationally in 10 children's specialties. Read more about how we rank best hospitals.
U.S. News gathers clinical data directly from children's hospitals through a detailed survey spanning 10 pediatric specialties.
Specialty | National Rank | Overall Score | |
Neonatology | #23 | 79.1/100 | Scorecard |
Pediatric Cancer | #17 | 79.7/100 | Scorecard |
Pediatric Cardiology & Heart Surgery | #15 | 82.7/100 | Scorecard |
Pediatric Diabetes & Endocrinology | #18 | 78.9/100 | Scorecard |
Pediatric Gastroenterology & GI Surgery | #26 | 73.3/100 | Scorecard |
Pediatric Nephrology | #8 | 90.5/100 | Scorecard |
Pediatric Neurology & Neurosurgery | #36 | 70.5/100 | Scorecard |
Pediatric Orthopedics | #43 | 70.0/100 | Scorecard |
Pediatric Pulmonology | #11 | 86.7/100 | Scorecard |
Pediatric Urology | #32 | 69.5/100 | Scorecard |
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