U.S. News & World Report's latest ranking of the nation’s best children’s hospitals is live with a first-time focus on those providing behavioral care. | Alongside a new eleventh specialty ranking, the highly-watched annual release has followed its adult counterpart and ditched ordinal rankings for its 10 "Honor Roll" hospitals.

Phoenix Children’s hospital has retained its overall standing in the Southwest market, according to the latest ranking by U.S. News & World Report — and it also appears in eight of the survey’s specialty rankings.

Houston-area children’s hospitals once again ranked among the nation’s best, continuing another year of local hospitals earning nationwide recognition.

Lurie Children’s Hospital is the No. 1 children’s hospital in Illinois and tied for third best in the Midwest this year, according to new rankings from U.S. News & World Report. U.S. News named UChicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital as the second best children’s hospital in Illinois,

Washington state is among the 10 states in the nation where gender reassignment procedures performed on minors occur the most, according to data from Do No

It was the first time in two years that U.S. News and World Report had done the children’s hospital rankings and also the first time it didn’t assign a specific ranking No. 1-10 to the top 10. UPMC Children’s Hospital had been in the top 10 the last time the list was published in 2023.