Families have many considerations when they seek care for a child, including finding the best care in a nearby hospital versus traveling to another city with a sick child to seek the best children’s hospital for a specific illness or condition. Here are the children’s hospitals which rank nationally for children in Arizona, according to U.S. News & World Report. The No. 1 children’s hospital in Arizona is Phoenix Children’s Hospital.
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1. Phoenix Children’s Hospital
Phoenix Children’s Hospital in Phoenix, AZ is nationally ranked in 8 pediatric specialties. It is a children’s general medical and surgical facility and ranks No. 1 among the best children’s hospitals in Arizona.
2. Arizona Children’s Center at Valleywise Health
Arizona Children’s Center at Valleywise Health in Phoenix is a children’s general facility. It is a teaching hospital. Arizona Children’s Center at Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix is the pediatric hospital of Maricopa Integrated Health System-Phoenix.
3. Banner Children’s at Desert
Banner Children’s at Desert in Mesa, AZ is a children’s general facility. Data from Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix were used to evaluate this hospital in neonatology and data from Banner Children’s at Thunderbird were used to evaluate this hospital in pediatric diabetes and endocrinology, pediatric gastroenterology and GI surgery, pediatric neurology and neurosurgery, pediatric orthopedics, and pediatric urology. Data from this hospital were used to evaluate Diamond Children’s Medical Center in pediatric cancer.
4. Banner Children’s at Thunderbird
Banner Children’s at Thunderbird in Glendale, AZ is a children’s general facility. Data from this hospital was used to evaluate Diamond Children’s Medical Center in pediatric cancer.
5. Diamond Children’s Medical Center
Diamond Children’s Medical Center in Tucson, AZ is a children’s general facility. It is a teaching hospital. Data from Banner Children’s at Desert and Banner Children’s at Thunderbird were used in evaluating this hospital in pediatric cancer.
6. Tucson Medical Center for Children
Tucson Medical Center for Children in Tucson, AZ is a children’s general facility. Tuscon Medical Center for Children in Tuscon, Arizona, is the pediatric hospital of TMC Healthcare-Tuscon. It is a teaching hospital.
