Below is a list of the top 50 hospitals in America that excel at and focuses on treating geriatric patients developed by US News and World Report.  While Arkansas is not currently listed, the medical center is working to change that with new grant money.  You can read about the project here.

Best Geriatric Care Hospitals

1. Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
2. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
3. Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY
4. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
5. Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
6. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
7. Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
8. UPMC-University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
9. University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, CA
10. Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
11. Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
12. New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell, NY, NY
13. Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA
14. University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
15. University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, Ann Arbor, MI
16. University of Alabama Hospital at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
17. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
18. NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY
19. Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
20. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
21. Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
22. Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis, MO
23. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
24. Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
25. Shands at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
26. Washington Hospital Center, Washington, D.C.
27. Clarian Health, Indianapolis, IN
28. Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
29. St. Louis University Hospital, St. Louis, MO
30. Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ
31. St. Francis Hospital, Roslyn, NY
32. Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, Fl
33. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
34. University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL
35. University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Jackson, FL
36. Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI
37. Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, Sarasota, Fl
38. Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI
39. Franklin Square Hospital Center, Baltimore, MD
40. University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
41. St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Houston, TX
42. Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, MD
43. Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Fl
44. Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, PA
45. Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, Norfolk, VA.
46. Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, OH
47. Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL
48. Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA
49. Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, MN
50. Loyola University Hospital, Maywood, IL

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