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University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics are now among the 20 best hospitals in the entire nation for the first time ever, according to U.S. News & World Report’s latest rankings released Monday.

Among the more than 4,500 hospitals that were analyzed, University Hospital and UW Health were ranked 17th. It’s the first time UW Hospitals have made it onto the U.S. News “Honor Roll”, an annual top-20 list of the most highly ranked hospitals.

“This represents a huge leap forward in the rankings for UW Health,” UW Health CEO Dr. Alan Kaplan said in a statement.

In addition to the Honor Roll designation, UW Hospital retained its ranking of the best hospital in the state of Wisconsin for the eighth year in a row. UW Hospital has received this distinction every year since U.S. News introduced it in 2012.

UW Hospital also ranked highly in 12 of the 16 categories for medical and surgical specialties. If a hospital ranks in the top 50 for one of the categories, that means it is in the top 2% of hospitals in the U.S.

The highest specialty rankings attained were in gynecology at 12th, urology at 14th and orthopedics at 19th.