Leading medical centers in US for respiratory illness?

Factual Questions
1

What medical centers, hospitals, clinics, or research centers in the USA are conventionally considered the leaders in respiratory health issues?

2

I’d put the National Jewish Medical and Research Center (in Denver) #1 in Respiratory Medicine.

3

I came in to post what KarlGauss did. National Jewish is an excellent respiratory hospital.

4

Thirded. I’m neither an MD nor a paramedic, but a reasonably well-educated asthmatic and National Jewish is viewed as a sort of Mecca among us wheezers.

Isnt’ that where the TB guy wound up going, last summer?

5

Yes, it is.

6

Well! I have already been talking to National Jewish, on the recommendation of a doctor (a gastroenterologist, oddly enough), but it occurred to me that hearing one recommendation doesn’t mean they’re on the top of the list.

But asking around and getting 4 more votes for them and 0 for any other certainly contributes to the incentive to work with them!

Thanks!

7

To add a (sort of) factual element, this study: Conflicting Measures of Hospital Quality seems to agree.

8

US News gives National Jewish as the top respiratory hospital, followed by the Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, Mass General, and the Cleveland Clinic. A description of the ranking methodology can be found here.