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U.S. News and World Report ranked a dozen Minnesota hospitals for this year’s list of the best hospitals in the United States, including nine in the Twin Cities. The annual list ranked hospitals from across the state,

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.