U.S. News & World Report named 50 hospitals to its 2026-2027 Best Children’s Hospitals Pediatric & Adolescent Behavioral Health list.
U.S. News evaluated 91 hospitals for their care of children and teens with mental and behavioral health conditions, including autism, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, ADHD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, language and learning disorders, and substance abuse and addiction.
Programs and care in areas such as medication screening and safety, speed and efficiency of the emergency department, and management of side effects were among the factors used to rank hospitals.
Here are the top 50 hospitals, in alphabetical order:
- Akron Children’s Hospital (Akron, Ohio)
- Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
- Behavioral Health at RWJ Barnabas Children’s Health (New Brunswick, N.J.)
- Boston Children’s Hospital
- Children’s Hospital Colorado (Aurora)
- Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU (Richmond, Va.)
- Children’s Health Dallas
- Children’s Memorial Hermann Hosp./Dunn Behav. Sci. Ctr. at UTHealth Houston
- Children’s Mercy Kansas City Hospital (Kansas City, Mo.)
- Children’s National Hospital (Washington, D.C.)
- CHOC Children’s Hospital (Orange, Calif.)
- Cincinnati Children’s
- Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital
- Cohen Children’s Medical Center (New Hyde Park, N.Y.)
- Cook Children’s Medical Center (Fort Worth, Texas)
- Corewell Health Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Dell Children’s Medical Center (Austin, Texas)
- Hackensack Meridian Health Sanzari & Hovnanian Children’s Hosps. (N.J.)
- Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital-U. of Utah (Salt Lake City)
- Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital at Memorial (Hollywood, Fla.)
- Johns Hopkins Children’s Center-Kennedy Krieger Institute (Baltimore)
- Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford (Palo Alto, Calif.)
- Mayo Clinic Children’s (Rochester, Minn.)
- MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital (Charleston, S.C.)
- Nationwide Children’s Hospital (Columbus, Ohio)
- Nemours Children’s Hospital-Delaware (Wilmington)
- Nemours Children’s Hospital-Florida (Orlando)
- New York-Presbyterian Children’s Hospital-Columbia and Cornell
- Nicklaus Children’s Hospital (Miami)
- Norton Children’s Hospital (Louisville, Ky.)
- Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children (Fla.)
- Penn State Hershey Children’s Hosp./Pennsylvania Psychiatric Inst. (Hershey)
- Phoenix Children’s Hospital
- Rady Children’s Hospital (San Diego)
- Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital (Cleveland)
- Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health (Indianapolis)
- Seattle Children’s Hospital
- St. Louis Children’s Hospital-Washington University
- Texas Children’s Hospital (Houston)
- U. of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital (Ann Arbor)
- UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital (Los Angeles)
- UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals (San Francisco and Oakland)
- UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital (Gainesville, Fla.)
- University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital (Iowa City)
- University of Virginia Children’s Hospital (Charlottesville)
- UPMC Children’s and Western Psychiatric Hospitals (Pittsburgh)
- WVU Medicine Golisano Children’s (Morgantown, W.Va.)
- Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital (New Haven, Conn.)
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