Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital is the number one children’s hospital in Florida according to the 2024-2025 U.S. News & World Report survey, the fourth time in five years it has led the state in ranked pediatric specialties.

Johns Hopkins All Children’s ranked nationally in six specialty areas. The hospital’s neonatology and orthopaedics programs achieved their highest rankings ever.

U.S. News & World Report also produced a regional ranking with Johns Hopkins All Children’s tied at #8 in the Southeast region, which stretches north to Tennessee and North Carolina and west to Arkansas and Louisiana. State and regional rankings are based on the number of pediatric specialties the hospital ranks in nationally.

The magazine’s 18th annual children’s hospital ranking lists Johns Hopkins All Children’s among the top 50 nationally in these areas:

• Neonatology #24
• Orthopaedics #27
• Diabetes and Endocrinology #39
• Urology #42
• Neurology and Neurosurgery #46
• Cardiology and Heart Surgery #46

“Families far and wide depend on us to provide specialized pediatric care to their precious children, and we are honored by their trust,” says Alicia Schulhof, president of Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. “This recognition is a great and welcome honor for our teams, whose dedication and spirit focuses on the mission of providing for the health and safety of those children.”

U.S. News & World Report compiles its rankings by gathering data from children’s medical centers throughout the country, considering certifications such as the nursing Magnet program and surveying pediatric specialists.

The Johns Hopkins All Children’s neonatology program leads all Florida hospitals in the ranking, is ranked for the fourth time in five years and the sixth time overall. It offers expertise in a variety of newborn medicine conditions and has experience with premature very low and extremely low birth weight babies. It features a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with a Level IV ranking, the highest available. It also manages newborn medicine units in collaborations with several other area regional and community hospitals.

The orthopaedics program is a collaboration with Children’s Orthopaedic and Scoliosis Surgery Associates. It specializes in the care of orthopaedic conditions, including scoliosis and limb deformity; congenital anomalies such as clubfoot and hip dysplasia; problems of the hand, foot and knee; and acute injuries such as sports injuries, fractures and trauma. It has ranked eight of the past nine years and nine times overall.

The Peavy Endocrinology and Diabetes Center built on past success, ranking nationally for the fifth year in a row. It provides acute care for hospitalized children as well as diagnosis, treatment and follow-up care for children, teens and young adults with endocrine and diabetes disorders at eight locations throughout the Tampa Bay region. 

The urology program is a collaboration with Children’s Urology Group, providing laparoscopic and minimally-invasive surgical services for a variety of urologic conditions. It is the only pediatric urology program in Florida to be ranked and appears on the list for the seventh time overall.

The neurology and neurosurgery programs in the Hough Family Institute for Brain Protection Sciences provide care throughout the west coast of Florida, including a collaborative program with Golisano Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida in Fort Myers. The program has ranked seven of the past eight years.

The cardiology and heart surgery program ranked for the ninth time. The program recently completed its 200^th heart transplant and offers cardiology services throughout the west coast of Florida.

Pediatric hospitals across the country participate in the survey each year, including Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, which ranked nationally in all 11 specialty areas and #1 in Maryland. Since joining the Johns Hopkins Health System in 2011, specialists at Johns Hopkins All Children’s have collaborated with colleagues in Baltimore on a variety of treatment and research initiatives.