Latest U.S. News hospital health rankings out. Where Lehigh Valley, St. Luke’s placed in Pa.

Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest in Salisbury Township and St. Luke’s University Hospital in Fountain Hill are among the top 10 hospitals in Pennsylvania, according to rankings released Tuesday by U.S. News and World Report.

These rankings marked the second set that have come out since St. Luke’s vowed to no longer assist U.S. News in compiling its list, criticizing what it called U.S. News’s “misguided methodology.”

Neither health networks’ flagship hospital moved in this year’s rankings compared to last. Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest is ranked the sixth best hospital in the state. St. Luke’s University Hospital came in ninth.

Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian in Philadelphia took the state’s top spot. No other local hospitals made the list of 22 hospitals in Pennsylvania released by U.S. News early Tuesday morning.

St. Luke’s has accused U.S. News of not basing its ranking on objective data.

U.S. News says its rankings focus on treatment of particularly difficult patients. They assess hospital performance in 15 specialties from cancer to urology. In 12 of these, rankings are determined by a “data-driven analysis.” In the three other specialties, rankings rely on expert opinion. A full summary of the methodology is on the U.S. News website.