Top Hospitals

Where to get the best medical care in Philadelphia

By Carol Saline

Posted on 5/2/08

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: Illustration by Dan Page

The more you practice, the better you become at piano. The more open-heart surgeries you perform, the better you get at them. That's the philosophy behind our list of the best places to go, locally, for treatment of 44 different diseases and conditions. We've weeded through the available options and selected the hospitals and medical centers that deliver the very highest level of expertise.

Click on each specialty for more information.

A
Addiction ... Aging ... Alternative Medicine ... Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

B
Balance ... Bariatric Surgery ... Bloodless Medicine and Surgery ... Brain Injury ... Burns

C
Cancer ... Children ... Critical Care

D
Diabetes

E
Eating Disorders ... Epilepsy ... Eyes

F
Foot and Ankle

G
Gastroenterology

H
Hands ... Headache ... Heart ... Hemophilia and Blood Disorders

K
Kidney Disease

L
Lungs ... Lupus

M
Maternal/Fetal Medicine ... Mental Health ... Multiple Sclerosis

N
Neurology

O
Orthopedics ... Osteoporosis

P
Pelvic Health

S
Scleroderma ... Sex Abuse ... Sickle-Cell Anemia ... Sleep Disorders ... Stroke ... Spinal Cord Injury ... Smell and Taste

T
Trauma

V
Voice

W
Women's Health ... Wound Care

Originally published in Philadelphia magazine, May 2008

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