Best hospitals for pediatric cardiology, heart surgery: US News

Houston-based Texas Children’s Hospital is the best hospital for pediatric cardiology and heart surgery in the U.S., according to U.S. News and World Report’s 2025-2026 ranking, published Oct. 7.

For the ranking, U.S. News evaluated children’s hospital clinical outcomes data — such as survival, infections and surgical complications — as well as commitment to patient safety and excellence, and family centeredness. Read more about the methodology here. 

Here are the top 50 hospitals for pediatric cardiology and heart surgery, according to the publication: 

Note: This list includes ties.

1. Texas Children’s Hospital (Houston)

2. Children’s Hospital Colorado (Aurora)

3. Duke Children’s Hospital and Health Center (Durham, N.C.)

4. MUSC Children’s Heart Program of South Carolina (Charleston)

5. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

6. Rady Children’s Hospital (San Diego)

7. Boston Children’s Hospital

8. Levine Children’s Hospital (Charlotte, N.C.)

9. Children’s Medical Center Dallas

10. Dell Children’s Medical Center (Austin, Texas)

11. Cincinnati Children’s and Kentucky Children’s Hospital Joint Heart Program

12. Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital at University of Utah (Salt Lake City)

13. University of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital (Ann Arbor)

14. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

15. UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital (Gainesville)

16. Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital

17. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

18. Loma Linda (Calif.) University Children’s Hospital

19. Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital (Houston)

20. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

21. UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

22 (tie). Children’s Hospital of Alabama at UAB (Birmingham)

22 (tie). Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital (Cleveland)

24. New York-Presbyterian Children’s Hospital at Columbia and Cornell (New York City)

25. Nationwide Children’s Hospital (Columbus)

26. Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health (Indianapolis)

27 (tie). Arkansas Children’s Hospital (Little Rock)

27 (tie). Children’s National Hospital (Washington, D.C.)

29. Nemours Children’s Hospital – Delaware (Wilmington)

30 (tie). Children’s Mercy Kansas City (Mo.) Hospital

30 (tie). Mayo Clinic – Children’s Minnesota Cardiovascular Collaborative (Rochester)

32. Seattle Children’s Hospital

33. UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, San Francisco and Oakland

34. Virginia Congenital Cardiac Collaborative (Charlottesville) 

35. Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford (Palo Alto, Calif.)

36. Ochsner Children’s Hospital (New Orleans)

37. Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone (New York City)

38. Oklahoma Children’s Hospital OU Health (Oklahoma City)

39. Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital (St. Petersburg, Fla.)

40 (tie). Johns Hopkins Children’s Center (Baltimore)

40 (tie). UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital and CHOC Joint Heart Program (Los Angeles)

42 (tie). Advocate Children’s Heart Institute (Oak Lawn, Ill.)

42 (tie). Norton Children’s Hospital (Louisville, Ky.)

44 (tie). Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital (Memphis, Tenn.)

44 (tie). Phoenix Children’s Hospital

46. SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital at St. Louis University

47. Nicklaus Children’s Hospital (Miami)

48. St. Louis Children’s Hospital at Washington University

49. American Family Children’s Hospital (Madison, Wis.)

50. Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt (Nashville, Tenn.)