St. Jude patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia have a 94 survival rate , the best results in the world for this disease. St. Jude was the first hospital in the United States to remove cranial irradiation from the treatment of ALL while maintaining excellent survival rates. So is St. Jude a good hospital? St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is ranked as the no. 1 pediatric cancer hospital on US News & World Report's 28 th Annual "Top Hospitals" list. The publication compared nearly 5,000 medical centers nationwide across specialties, procedures, and conditions.