And finally, the top 20 hospital Facebook accounts. Rankings determined by the number of fans / members. Note the popularity of Childrens Hospitals. Data was collected on August 12, and ranking stats for all 350+ hospitals accounts can be found on on this Excel spreadsheet
- St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital 88,154
- Mayo Clinic 8,505
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute – Jimmy Fund 6,358
- Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center 5,265
- Cleveland Clinic 4,133
- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia 4,083
- Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children 3,723
- Children’s Mercy Hospital 3,548
- Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt 3,420
- Arkansas Children’s Hospital 3,202
- Seattle Children’s Hospital 2,998
- Nationwide Children’s Hospital 2,071
- Childrens Hospital Los Angeles 2,021
- Roswell Park Cancer Institute 2,006
- City of Hope 1,857
- Children’s National Medical Center 1,779
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 1,774
- Children’s Memorial Hospital 1,710
- St. Louis Children’s Hospital 1,632
- Children’s Hospital Boston 1,553
A few thoughts about these top 20 lists. Don’t take them seriously – they don’t mean much in the scheme of things. An active, engaged program, the willingness to be part of a community, to answer questions, to provide assistance – that’s the only metric that matters.
You don’t need thousands of followers to be successful.

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