SickKids among world’s top pediatric hospitals

TORONTO – The Hospital for Sick Children has been named the world’s second-best pediatric hospital by Newsweek magazine, in its annual rankings of the World’s Best Specialized Hospitals for 2025. Only the Boston Children’s Hospital is ranked ahead of SickKids. The BC Children’s Hospital and the Alberta Children’s Hospital came in at numbers 11 and 12.

As noted on the SickKids website, “We’ve been in the top two spots for four years in a row. Our ranking of second this year is based on 250 children’s centres worldwide and a global survey of doctors, healthcare professionals and administrators.”

The World’s Best Specialized Hospitals 2025 ranking awards the leading hospitals worldwide in twelve medical fields: Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Oncology, Orthopedics, Pediatrics, Pulmonology, Urology, and Obstetrics & Gynecology.

“It is truly humbling to be ranked the second-best children’s hospital in the world, amongst such a distinguished group of leaders in children’s health. This is a testament to the dedication, expertise, excellence and drive of SickKids staff and the crucial role they play in realizing our vision: Healthier Children. A Better World,” said Dr. Ronald Cohn (pictured), SickKids president and CEO.

SickKids is Canada’s largest centre dedicated to improving children’s healthcare and one of the most research-intensive hospitals in the country, generating discoveries that have helped children across the world.

“Moving forward we are accelerating our Precision Child Health movement at SickKids, using artificial intelligence and other innovative technologies, with the goal of providing individualized, precise care for every patient,” says Cohn.

Precision Child Health is a new era of child and youth care in which every patient’s unique characteristics are considered, from their genetic code to their postal code. That means fueling groundbreaking research, providing faster diagnoses, and creating more targeted treatments by harnessing cutting-edge science, technology and data analysis to help deliver better outcomes.

“Diagnose faster. Treat smarter. Predict better. That’s Precision Child Health and it’s a transformational shift in the approach to children’s health care that we will be leading as one of the world’s best children’s hospitals,” said Cohn.

The top 12 pediatric hospitals, as ranked by Newsweek/Statista, are:

1. Boston Children’s Hospital
2. Hospital for Sick Children
3. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
4. Great Ormond Street Hospital (London, UK)
5. Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles
6. Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù (Rome)
7. Hôpital Necker-Enfants malades (Paris)
8. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
9. Ann & Rober H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
10. Seoul National University Hospital
11. BC Children’s Hospital (Vancouver)
12. Alberta Children’s Hospital (Calgary)