Mayo Children's Center ranked among best

Six-year-old Sameer Sakrikar, right, of Rochester, gets help building a mouse from Ashley Narum, a Mayo Clinic child life intern, at the inventor’s workshop table.

By By Anne Halliwell ahalliwell@rochestermagazine.com and Anne Halliwell

June 27, 2018 at 7:00 AM

Mayo Clinic’s Children’s Center is ranked as a top-performing children’s hospital in Iowa, Minnesota, and the Dakotas, according to a new report by U.S. News and World.

Of 118 children’s hospitals in the U.S., Mayo Clinic ranked as a top-performing provider in seven of 10 pediatric specialties.

U.S. News and World Report ranked the children’s center highest in neonatology (#13).

"It is rewarding to see the efforts of our multidisciplinary team in Neonatology recognized in these rankings," Christopher Colby, division chairman for Neonatal Medicine, said in a press release. "We had excellent performance in the quality and process domains in the U.S. News survey. The growth and support of the Fetal Care Center, along with the Teleneonatology Program generated a higher volume of newborns with complex medical and surgical conditions."

Here are the rest of the rankings for the Children’s Center that fell within the top 50:

· Neonatology (No. 13)

· Diabetes and Endocrinology (No. 15)

· Neurology and Neurosurgery (No. 21)

· Cancer (No. 26)

· Cardiology and Heart Surgery (No. 27)

· Orthopedics (No. 31)

· Urology (No. 31) two-way tie