Mayo Clinic has ranked among the best Midwest children's hospitals in the 2012-2013 U.S. New & World Reports Best Children's Hospitals rankings.

According to the clinic, Mayo was the only Minnesota hospital to rank in all 10 pediatric specialties, including cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology, neonatology, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology and urology.

Dr. Ann Reed, chair of the Mayo Clinic Children's Center, said employees work diligently "to make each patient's experience the best it can be."

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