St. Baldrick’s Foundation Congratulates “America’s Best Children’s Hospitals”

They are the best of the best; in patient services, cancer treatment, and overall care— and each has received research funding from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. 

Every year, U.S. News and World Report compiles a list of “America’s Best Children’s Hospitals” to showcase medical centers that deal with both the ordinary and extraordinary. Each day these hospitals care for kids who have cancer, cystic fibrosis, defective hearts, and countless other life-threatening or rare conditions beyond the capabilities of most hospitals, even those with sizable pediatric departments. The rankings show the 30 top children's centers in 10 specialties including cancer. Eight hospitals, recognized in the Honor Roll, ranked in all 10.

The St. Baldrick's Foundation would like to extend an especially heartfelt thank you to the following Honor Roll hospitals for their care of pediatric oncology patients and their exciting research in the childhood cancer.

1.    Children’s Hospital Boston, Mass.

2.    Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Calif.

3.    Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Penn.

4.    Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Penn.

5.    Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center, Ohio

6.    New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley-Komansky Children's Hospital, New York, N.Y.

7.    St. Louis Children's Hospital-Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.

8.    Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas 

Also on the U.S. News and World Report’s "Top 30 Children’s Hospitals for Cancer Treatment," the following have received grants from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation for specific research or to support their participation in national clinical trials:

1.    St. Jude Children’s Research Center, Memphis, Tenn.

2.    Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Penn.

3.    Children’s Hospital Boston, Mass.

4.    Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center, Ohio.

5.    Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas.

6.    Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Calif.

7.    Seattle Children’s Hospital, Wash.

8.    Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, N.Y.

9.    Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, Baltimore, Md.

10.    Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Ill.

11.    Children’s Hospital, Denver, Auroro, Colo.

12.    Children's Cancer Hospital-University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.

13.    Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Ga.

14.    Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, D.C.

15.    Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, Palo Alto, Calif.

16.    Children’s Medical Center Dallas, Texas

17.    St. Louis Children’s Hospital- Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.

18.    Duke Children’s Hospital and Health Center, Durham, N.C.

19.    New York- Presbyterian Morgan Stanley- Komansky Children’s Hospital, New York, N.Y.

20.    Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA, Los Angeles, Calif.

21.    UCSF Children’s Hospital, San Francisco, Calif.

22.    Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio

23.    Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Penn.

24.    University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital, Minneapolis, Minn.

25.    University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor, Mich.

26.    Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio.

27.    Children’s Hospital Cleveland Clinic, Ohio

28.    Doernbecher Children's Hospital at Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Ore.

29.    Primary Children's Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah

30.    Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, Ind.

St. Baldrick’s volunteers and donors can be proud to be supporting pediatric cancer research at the best of the best!