America's Best Hospitals   U.S. News put 5,462 medical centers through progressively finer screens to create the 16 specialties rankings edition of America's Best Hospitals. Just 173 hospitals made it into the rankings, and of those, a mere few displayed the marked breadth of expertise, with high scores in at least six specialties, that qualified them to be in  America's Best Hospitals on FreeHealthFacts.com . They are ordered by total points—a hospital got 2 points if it ranked at or close to the top in a specialties and 1 point if it ranked slightly lower 1 Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore 30 points in 15 specialties 2 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. 29 points in 15 specialties 3 UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles 25 points in 15 specialties 4 Cleveland Clinic 25 points in 13 specialties 5 Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 23 points in 12 specialties 6 New York-Presbyterian Univ. Hosp. of Columbia and Cornell 21 points in 11 specialties 7 Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. 18 points in 10 specialties 8 University of California, San Francisco Medical Center 18 points in 10 specialties 9 Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis 17 points in 11 specialties 10 Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston 16 points in 10 specialties 11 University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle 15 points in 9 specialties 12 Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 11 points in 8 specialties 13 University of Pittsburgh Medical Center 10 points in 7 specialties 14 University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, Ann Arbor 9 points in 7 specialties 15 Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, Calif. 8 points in 6 specialties 16 Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn. 8 points in 6 specialties 17 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles 7 points in 6 specialties 18 University of Chicago Medical Center 7 points in 6 specialties