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By Kevin McKenzie of The Commercial Appeal

Methodist Hospitals of Memphis, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have been recognized in U.S. News & World Report’s 2016-17 national rankings of hospitals.

U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals rankings ranked Methodist Hospitals as the Memphis-area's best and Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis as second.

The ranking for Methodist Hospitals, for a sixth year in a row, includes Methodist’s University, North and South hospitals, as well as Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown.

Statewide, Methodist ranked third, with Vanderbilt University Medical Center ranked first and the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville as second.

In a separate U.S. News & World Report ranking for children’s hospitals, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, part of the Methodist system, also for a sixth year was recognized for specialties.

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis ranked fourth in the pediatric cancer specialty.