When families choose a place to lay down roots, education typically tops the list of priorities. But a new report from Scholaroo suggests that easy access to high-quality healthcare should similarly be a big part of their decision-making process.

The Scholaroo study ranked U.S. metropolitan areas based on several metrics, including the number of hospitals and pediatricians, and singled out three on the East Coast for their family-friendliness. Burlington, Vermont; New York City and Wilmington, Delaware were identified in the report as the best cities for families hoping to have easy access to care for their children.

The cities that rounded out the top 10 were Chicago; Yonkers, New York; Baltimore; Kansas City, Missouri; Indianapolis; Columbus, Ohio; and Charleston, West Virginia.

Cities performing the worst in Scholaroo’s family healthcare rankings included Frederick, Maryland; Warren, Michigan; Mesa, Arizona; Tampa; Omaha; and Fort Wayne, Indiana.

The report examined other areas, such as safety, finance, education and quality of life, across 152 U.S. cities. The healthcare rankings weighed the number of hospitals per capita and number of pediatricians per capita most heavily. They also considered the number of residents under 65 without health insurance as well as the average number of hospital beds used per capita in a week.

The Scholaroo data revealed, unsurprisingly, that the East Coast is home to many cities with high volumes of pediatricians. Washington, D.C.; Newark and Providence ranked particularly high in that metric.

That wasn’t the case across a range of Western and Midwestern states. South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho all lacked a city with a high number of pediatricians — and, as a result, their cities ranked low among the localities in the Scholaroo report. Rural states have long been plagued by a comparative lack of easy access to healthcare as well as HCP shortages.

As for the number of nearby hospitals, East Coast cities again led the way. Southern states (Tennessee, Georgia and Mississippi) and  Western states (Utah, Idaho, Oregon and Washington) ranked much lower.

Boston has typically taken first place in other rankings of healthcare-rich environments, with Baltimore and Indianapolis often ranking high as well.