Following backlash, U.S. News and World Report has made a number of changes to its methodology for its upcoming Best Hospitals rankings, which are due for release on August 1.

Officials from U.S. News, including Managing Editor and Chief of Health Analysis Ben Harder and senior health data scientist Dr. Min Hee Seo, released 18 “refinements” to the methodology for the upcoming rankings. A handful of others that are under consideration.