America’s Best Hospitals: 2025-2026 Honor Roll and Overview

July 30, 2025 1

U.S. News ranks the top hospitals in the nation, plus the best hospitals in each state and metro area.

For more than 30 years, the mission of U.S. News & World Report’s annual Best Hospitals rankings has been to help guide patients, in consultation with their doctors, to the right hospital when they need care.

Because each patient’s needs are different, U.S. News offers rankings and ratings in more than three dozen different health care services, including cancer care, orthopedics and heart bypass surgery.

In each state and region, hospitals with a wide breadth of excellence are recognized as Best Regional Hospitals, and the best of them are also named to the national Honor Roll.

U.S. News 2025-2026 Best Hospitals Honor Roll

These 20 medical centers, listed in alphabetical order, are the best of the Best Hospitals:

AdventHealth Orlando
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
Cleveland Clinic
Hackensack University Medical Center at Hackensack Meridian Health, Hackensack, New Jersey
Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia
Houston Methodist Hospital
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Mayo Clinic-Arizona, Phoenix
Mayo Clinic-Rochester, Minnesota
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City
New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, New York City
Northwestern Medicine-Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
NYU Langone Hospitals, New York City
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Palo Alto, California
UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
University of Michigan Health-Ann Arbor

To help readers narrow their search, U.S. News rates hospitals in 22 benchmark procedures and conditions, such as knee replacement, heart bypass surgery and gynecological cancer surgery. New this year are ratings in heart arrhythmia and pacemaker implantation. U.S. News also ranks hospitals in 15 areas of complex specialty care.

These ratings and rankings are based on each hospital’s patient outcomes – that is, how well patients have fared after treatment – as well as other factors that matter to patients, like the quality of their experience and whether the hospital is adequately staffed.

U.S. News also ranks hospitals in each state and about 100 major metro areas to make it easy for everyone to find excellent care close to home and in their insurance network. To be counted among this year’s 504 Best Regional Hospitals, a hospital had to outperform in at least eight of the procedures and conditions U.S. News evaluates and meet other criteria.

While urban areas around New York City (with 25 Best Regional Hospitals), Los Angeles (with 24) and greater Chicago (with 21) have the greatest concentrations of top medical centers, Best Regional Hospitals can also be found in the Florida panhandle, North Dakota’s Red River Valley, the Ozarks of Arkansas and scores of other urban and rural areas.

The Best Hospitals Honor Roll highlights 20 hospitals that excel across most or all types of care evaluated by U.S. News. Hospitals received points if they were nationally ranked in the 15 specialties – the more specialties and the higher their rank, the more points they got – and if they were rated high performing in any of the 22 procedures and conditions. The top point-scorers made the Honor Roll.

For most illnesses, patients do not need to go to an Honor Roll hospital, which may require traveling away from home and paying expenses for out-of-network care. All rankings and ratings should be seen as just a starting point for patients considering where to seek care with input from their doctors. Individual diagnosis, insurance coverage and priorities are important factors in making a personal best choice.

Source: https://health.usnews.com/health-care/best-hospitals/articles/best-hospitals-honor-roll-and-overview

Written by: Joshua Stuart

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