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The List of the US Top Hospitals

The US News and World Report has released its annual ranking of the nation's top hospitals, sprinkled from coast to coast. The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., took the No. 1 spot - for the first time - followed by Boston's Mass General; Baltimore's Johns Hopkins; the Cleveland Clinic; and the UCLA Medical Center.

If you want to see how your area hospital measured up, click here for the report's complete list.

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