THE GLOBAL TOP TEN

The hospitals that ranked the highest in this year’s list of the world’s leading institutions

Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA

Possibly the best-known name in american medicine, the Mayo clinic was founded in 1889 by a group of Minnesota physicians led by brothers William and charles Mayo. The clinic, which employees 73,000 people, now has campuses at its home in rochester, Minnesota, as well as Scottsdale and Phoenix, arizona, and Jacksonville, Florida. The Mayo clinic health System has dozens of locations in several states. Every year the Mayo Clinic sees more than 1.4 million patients with serious or complex illnesses from the U.S. and 140 countries. Last year, it invested more than $500 million annually in research. A renowned transplant center, the Mayo clinic is also highly regarded for expertise in several specialty areas, particularly diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology, geriatrics and gynecology. ▸ mayoclinic.org

Cleveland Clinic CLEVELAND, OHIO

The Cleveland Clinic was founded in 1921 and now encompasses 21 hospitals with 6,496 beds (including a 394-bed hospital in Abu Dhabi and an outpatient location in London) and more than 226 outpatient locations in the U.S. and internationally. It has more than 5,500 physicians and scientists and 14,700 registered nurses. Cleveland Clinic was one of the first academic medical centers in the U.S. to offer COVID-19 diagnostic testing. Highly rated in several specialties, Cleveland Clinic has been a longtime leader in cardiology and heart surgery. Last year it performed 1,050 transplants, including heart, kidney, liver, intestine and lungs. ▸ my.clevelandclinic.org

Massachusetts General Hospital BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

The first and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General was founded in Boston in 1811, making it the oldest and largest hospital in New England and the third oldest in the U.S. Today it is part of Mass General Brigham, a hospital and physician network with Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Massachusetts General has more than 1,000 beds and employs more than 19,000 people. It is known for research in a range of fields and has the largest hospital-based research program in the U.S., with more than $1 billion in research operations. ▸ massgeneral.org

The Johns Hopkins Hospital BALTIMORE, MARYLAND

The Johns hopkins hospital was founded in 1889 with a $7 million grant from Baltimore banker and philanthropist Johns hopkins. Since then, it has had a central role in the history and development of american medical education. Today, the hospital has more than 2,400 full-time attending physicians, more than 1,100 beds, admits more than 40,000 patients and has more than 87,000 emergency room visits. Johns hopkins coronavirus resource center’s comprehensive global dashboard, launched in 2020 and scheduled to be shut down this March, was one of the first global maps to track COVID-19 cases and deaths. ▸ hopkinsmedicine.org

Toronto General University Health Network TORONTO, CANADA

Toronto General is the flagship of the University health Network, which also includes Toronto Western hospital, the Princess Margaret cancer centre, Toronto rehabilitation Institute and The Michener Institute of Education. It was founded in 1819 and now has over 400 beds. TGH is one of the world’s leading transplant centers. The first single lung transplant was performed here in 1983, and the first double lung transplant was done at TGH three years later. ▸ uhn.ca/ourhospitals/tgh

Karolinska University Hospital SOLNA, SWEDEN

For the fourth year in a row, Karolinska is rated among Newsweek’s top 10, moving up from the number 8 spot last year. The hospital has the lowest mortality figure in the country for TAVI aortic valve intervention. In 2022, it invested in a plan to become the country’s first “queue-free” university hospital, reducing wait times to less than 90 days for surgeries and 30 days for new visits by adding simplified scheduling and elective surgeries on Saturdays to help cut the backlog. An investment in advanced technology, including AI; cutting-edge ALS research; minimally invasive, robot-assisted techniques for upper abdominal surgeries and a new wellness center to promote staff well-being all contribute to its current successes. ▸ karolinska.se/en/karolinska-university-hospital

Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin BERLIN, GERMANY

Founded over 300 years ago, Charité is still at the forefront of cutting-edge medicine. As part of its “Strategy 2030— Rethinking Health,” the hospital is enhancing its use of digitalization and telemedicine. It has been recognized for coordinating pandemic relief, with its researchers publishing close to 700 scientific publications on COVID-19 during the first two years of the pandemic. It has opened a POST-COVID syndrome treatment center and coordinated an Academic Research Network of 36 university hospitals and begun a long-term strategic collaboration with the WHO to predict, prevent, detect, respond to and prepare for new global health emergencies. The last year brought two new centers as well: the German Center for Mental Health and the German Center for Child and Adolescent Health. ▸ charite.de

AP-HP - Hôpital Universitaire Pitié Salpêtrière PARIS, FRANCE

This public health hospital, made up of 90 buildings and 77 services grouped into 10 centers, is renowned for cancer care. It takes care of one third of all cancer patients in Île-de-france, with more than 150 open therapeutic trials for its patients. In January 2023, it also opened a new pediatric outpatient surgical unit to care for approximately 3,000 children annually, with features designed specifically for kids, making them the hero of their own tablet game during their treatment. ▸ pitiesalpetriere.aphp.fr

Singapore General Hospital SINGAPORE

Moving back into the top 10 this year, Singapore General is a top-tier research and teaching hospital, and over the pandemic has pivoted from wholly in-person training to gamification and simulation to enhance its education methods. About one quarter of all the acute hospital beds in the country’s public sector are at SGH, and its new Emergency Medicine building is expected to open in 2023 with a focus on bringing care to the patient while minimizing transfers, as well as stations designed to handle mass-casualty decontamination. ▸ sgh.com.sg

UCLA Health – Ronald Reagan Medical Center LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

UCLA is a leader in developing new cancer treatments, is a national leader annually in the number of solid organ transplants and is a pioneer in the field of brain mapping. The medical center’s architecture was designed by I.M. Pei and Associates to prioritize the whole patient, providing a comfortable stay combined with state-of-the-art integration of medical equipment. A newly announced, $20 million gift will fund a new center focused on the microbiome and its effect on health. ▸ uclahealth.org/reagan/