Healthgrades names its best hospitals for 2026. Here are the top 50.

Healthgrades has unveiled its list of the top hospitals in the country.

Today, Healthgrades announced the recipients of the 2026 America’s Best Hospitals Awards. As is customary each year, Healthgrades named the top 50, the top 100 and the top 250 hospitals in the country.

Healthgrades, a website where people can look and compare doctors and hospitals, examined about 4,500 hospitals and evaluated their performance across more than 30 procedures and conditions. Those making the top 250 rank among the top 5% of hospitals, while the top 50 hail the top 1%, Healthgrades says.

This year’s winners include hospitals from some of America’s largest health systems, but some of the top 50 hospitals come from smaller systems as well.

Dr. Alana Biggers, medical advisor at Healthgrades, said the hospitals that earned honors are meeting high standards of patient care.

“The hospitals that are getting recognized really should be celebrated and congratulated for this accomplishment,” Biggers tells Chief Healthcare Executive®.

Biggers says it’s important for hospitals to maintain consistency and building an environment that supports patients and enables clinicians to do their best work.

“I think it comes down to really just building that infrastructure and having the leadership in place that encourages and supports different health systems to make sure that they're performing at their best level,” she says.

Healthgrades estimates that 211,370 lives would be saved if all hospitals performed similarly to the top 250 hospitals in its rankings. The website analyzed Medicare data from 2022 through 2024.

While celebrating the top-notch hospitals, Healthgrades also points out that many Americans don’t have easy access to those facilities. Almost half of all Americans (46%) live more than 25 miles from the top 250 hospitals, and 14 states don’t have a facility ranked among the top 250.

When it comes to access, Biggers says, “It's still an issue … I don't want to sugarcoat that at all.”

For those not in close proximity to the top hospitals recognized by Healthgrades should look to find the best facilities available.

“I would still encourage people to ask, to shop around,” she says.

Other recent reports also suggest hospitals are improving in patient safety. Hospital surgery patients in 2024 were more likely to survive, and less likely to have complications, than patients in 2019, according to a report released by the American Hospital Association and Vizient.

Healthgrades’ Top 50

Here are the hospitals named by Healthgrades as America’s 50 Best Hospitals.

Mayo Clinic Hospital, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, Ariz.

Lancaster General Hospital, Penn Medicine, Lancaster, Pa.

Beaumont Hospital, Corewell Health, Troy, Mich.

Ascension Providence Hospital-Southfield Campus, Henry Ford Health, Southfield, Mich.

Mills-Peninsula Medical Center, Sutter Health, Burlingame, Calif.

Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston Methodist, Houston, Texas

Morristown Medical Center, Atlantic Health System, Morristown, NJ

Mission Hospital, HCA Healthcare, Asheville, North Carolina

Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Nuvance Health, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Cedars-Sinai, West Hollywood, Calif.

Sutter Roseville Medical Center, Sutter Health, Roseville, Calif.

Mayo Clinic Hospital Saint Mary’s Campus, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

Northridge Hospital Medical Center, CommonSpirit Health, Northridge, Calif.

Lankenau Medical Center, Main Line Health, Wynnewood, Pa.

Overlook Medical Center, Atlantic Health System, Summit, N.J.

Mercy Health-Fairfield Hospital, Bon Secours Mercy Health, Fairfield, Ohio

Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, Providence, Mission Hills, Calif.

Chester County Hospital, Penn Medicine, West Chester, Pa.

Lenox Hill Hospital, Northwell Health, New York, N.Y.

Evergreen Health Medical Center-Kirkland, Evergreen Health, Kirkland, Wash.

Reading Hospital, Tower Health, West Reading, Pa.

Mayo Clinic in Florida, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Fla.

Stony Brook University Hospital, SUNY Health, Stony Brook, N.Y.

Stanford Hospital, Stanford Medicine, Stanford, Calif.

Emory University Hospital Midtown, Emory Healthcare, Atlanta, Ga.

The Jewish Hospital-Mercy Health, Bon Secours Mercy Health, Cincinnati, Ohio

Mercy Health-West Hospital, Bon Secours Mercy Health, Cincinnati, Ohio

Scripps Memorial Hospital Encenitas, Scripps Health, Encenitas, Calif.

Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Advocate Health, Park Ridge, Ill.

St. Luke’s Hospital-Bethlehem Campus, St. Luke’s University Health Network, Bethlehem, Pa.

Mayo Clinic Health System Mankato, Mayo Clinic, Mankato, Minn.

Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Sutter Health, Oakland, Calif.

AdventHealth Orlando, AdventHealth, Orlando, Fla.

Akron City Hospital, Summa Health, Akron, Ohio

Riddle Memorial Hospital, Main Line Health, Media, Pa.

Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital, Emory Healthcare, Atlanta, Ga.

Cape Coral Hospital, Lee Health, Cape Coral, Fla.

Inova Loudoun Hospital, Inova, Leesburg, Va.

Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Penn State Health, Hershey, Pa.

Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego, Scripps Health, San Diego, Calif.

Norwalk Hospital, Nuvance Health, Norwalk, Conn.

Naples Community Hospital, NCH, Naples, Fla.

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Md.

Lee Memorial Hospital, Lee Health, Fort Myers, Fla.

NYU Langone Hospitals, NYU Langone Health, New York, N.Y.

HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, HCA Healthcare, Miami, Fla.

HCA HealthONE Sky Ridge, HCA Healthcare, Lone Tree, Colo.

Gulf Coast Medical Center, Lee Health, Fort Myers, Fla.

Mercy Health-St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, Bon Secours Mercy Health, Lima, Ohio

Cabell Huntington Hospital, Marshall Health Network, Huntington, W. Va.