A nationally ranked children's hospital is closer than you think

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta tied for 11th in U.S. News and World Report's rankings of pediatric hospital.

Credit: Hyosub Shin

Credit: Hyosub Shin

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta tied for 11th in U.S. News and World Report's rankings of pediatric hospital.

U.S. News and World Report released its ninth annual rankings of pediatric hospitals, and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta landed near the top.

In the 2015-16 rankings, 83 hospitals made the list, with the top 12 earning a spot on the honor roll.

The hospitals were ranked in 10 specialties: cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes & endocrinology, gastroenterology and GI surgery, neonatology, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology, and urology.

The top 12 received high scores in three or more specialties.

This was the first time Children's Healthcare made the honor roll, tying for No. 11 with Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.

Boston Children's Hospital claimed the top spot, ranking No. 1 in seven of the 10 specialties.

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta ranked in the top 10 in three specialties — cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, and nephrology — and in the top 20 in two more — orthopedics and urology.

You can check the rankings — overall and in each specialty — of the honor roll hospitals here.