Children's of Alabama again ranks among the nation's best children's hospitals in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.

In its 2017-18 Best Children's Hospital rankings, the magazine named seven of the hospital's pediatric specialty services - cancer, diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology/GI surgery, nephrology, neurology/neurosurgery, orthopedics and pulmonology -among the top 50 in the United States.

"We are happy that for the eighth year we are ranked among the nation's best pediatric hospitals," Children's CEO and president Mike Warren said in a statement. "Year in and year out, our goal is to provide exceptional care, service and comfort to the patients who are entrusted to us for medical care."

Children's and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Departments of Pediatrics and Surgery collaborated to submit the requested information to the magazine. Children's is the primary site for pediatric clinical and educational programs for the UAB School of Medicine. Children's of Alabama has provided specialized medical care for ill and injured children since it opened in 1911, offering inpatient and outpatient services throughout central Alabama.

U.S. News & World Report introduced its Best Children's Hospital rankings in 2007 to help families of sick children find the best medical care available. The rankings offer families an exclusive look at quality-related information at the individual hospital level.