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Mount Sinai Hospital, New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, NYU Langone Hospitals and Hackensack University Medical Center at Hackensack Meridian Health in Hackensack, NJ, earned top honors in the “Best Hospitals” rankings released Tuesday.

Two Massachusetts hospitals made the “honor roll” of the top 20 best-of-the-best medical centers in the nation, while others earned distinction in certain specialties. The post Here’s how Mass. hospitals fared on this year’s U.