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Read-a-thon Rankings (2020 - Present)

2022

154

NICUs participated

31,879

Reading sessions at each participating NICU

0.86

Average number of reading sessions per infant per day

Top 30 NICUs:

​1. HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood

2. Bozeman Health

3. Trinity Health Grand Rapids (formerly Mercy Health Saint Mary's)

4. Winter Haven Women’s Hospital

5. Trinity Health - St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor

6. University of Vermont Medical Center

7. Providence Portland Medical Center

8. St. Mary's Medical Center

9. Rush Copley Medical Center

10. Memorial Hospital Miramar

11. St Joseph's Women’s Hospital

12. Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (Ajman, United Arab Emirates)

13. White Plains Hospital

14. Children's Hospital Colorado Anschutz Campus

15. Mott Children’s Hospital

16. OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital

17. Chandler Regional Medical Center

18. St. Jude Medical Center

19. University Health Truman Medical Center

20. Mission Trail Baptist

21. Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara

22. Greater Baltimore Medical Center

23. Wentworth Douglass Hospital

24. Baylor Medical Center Frisco

25. Providence Santa Rosa Memorial

26. Henry Ford Hospital

27. Mercy San Juan Medical Center

28. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia: Chester County Hospital

29. HCA Houston Healthcare Conroe

30. Cleveland Clinic Akron General

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2021

105

NICUs participated

18,040

Reading sessions at each participating NICU

0.64

Average number of reading sessions per infant per day

Top 30 NICUs:

​1. Rochester Regional Health Sands-Constellation Center for Critical Care 

2. Providence Portland Medical Center

3. Emory Decatur Hospital

4. Mercy Health St. Mary's Hospital - Grand Rapids

5. Baylor Scott and White Medical Center - Frisco

6. Regions Hospital

7. John R. Oishei Children's Hospital

8. Bozeman Health

9. University of Vermont Medical Center 

10. Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center

11. Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock

12. Jewish General Hospital

13. Cork University Maternity Hospital

14. Rush Copley Medical Center

15. St. Joseph Medical Center - Virginia Mason Franciscan Health

16. Nationwide Children's Hospital

17. Randall Children's Hospital

18. Rose Medical Center

19. Connecticut Children's NICU at UConn Health Center

20. Munson Medical Center

21. University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital

22. Dell Children's Medical Center

23. Memorial Hospital Miramar

24. UPMC Harrisburg

25. Ascension St. Vincent - Peyton Manning Children's Hospital

26. Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital

27. Liberty Hospital

28. Swedish American Hospital

29. Catholic Medical Center

30. OhioHealth Doctor's Hospital

2020

39

NICUs participated

6,140

Reading sessions at each participating NICU

0.61

Average number of reading sessions per infant per day

Top 30 NICUs:

​1. Emory Decatur Hospital

2. University of Vermont Medical Center

3. Rochester General Hospital

4. OSF Children's Hospital of Illinois

5. Trinity Health Grand Rapids (formerly Mercy Health Saint Mary's)

6. Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital

7. Sacred Heart Medical Center at Riverbend

8. Swedish American Hospital

9. Beacon Children's Hospital

10. Monmouth Medical Center

11. Providence St. Vincent Medical Center

12. St. Vincent Healthcare, SCL Health - Billings

13. UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital

14. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

15. Sanford USD Medical Center

16. Randall Children’ Hospital

17. Rady Children Hospital of San Diego

18. Rose Medical Center

19. Humber River Hospital

20. St. Luke’s Baptist Hospital

21. Santa Clara County Valley Medical Center

22. Saint Luke’s Plaza - Kansas City

23. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

24. Mercy Kids - St. Louis

25. Salem Hospital

26. Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women and Children

27. Mott Children’s Hospital

28. Presbyterian Hospital

29. Dublin Methodist Hospital

30. Baylor University Medical Center

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