U.S. News reveals top hospitals for 2025-26

U.S. News & World Report has named its Best Hospitals for 2025-26.

The outlet released its top hospitals early Tuesday morning. The U.S. News rankings are highly anticipated, with many hospitals pointing to them for both bragging rights and advertising their status in their communities. This is the 36th year U.S. News has produced the "Best Hospitals" list.

This year, U.S. News examined more than 4,400 hospitals and selected 504 “Best Regional Hospitals.” A few more received the honor than last year, when 466 hospitals earned recognition from U.S. News as Best Regional Hospitals.

Chelsey Wen, a senior health data analyst at U.S. News & World Report, says the analysis is aimed at helping consumers find the best care, without having to face a long drive.

“This year, we're also trying to provide more useful data for patients within their communities on a more local scale,” Wen tells Chief Healthcare Executive®.

“We're providing more options for people within their communities, so they don't have to travel to get these hospital procedures done,” she adds. (See more of our conversation in this video. The story continues below.)

U.S. News also revised its methodology to place a greater focus on outcomes this year, she says.

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A group of 20 hospitals earned spots in the U.S. News “Honor Roll.”

“They're the best of the best, and that means that they have to have exemplary performance across all the areas of care that we evaluate,” Wen says.U.S. News also recognized top hospitals in treating certain diseases and conditions, such as cancer, cardiology and diabetes, among others. 

The best regional hospitals were named across 95 metropolitan areas in 49 states. To gain recognition as a top regional hospital, providers had to earn at least eight high-performing ratings among 22 procedures and conditions.

“I'm hoping that with our emphasis on the local care and the best regional hospitals …. I'm hoping that patients are finding it easier to find care that is easy for them to access,” Wen says.

She says the U.S. News “Best Hospitals” website is designed to allow consumers to easily compare different providers in their area.

“The way that our website is set up, I think, is really useful, because there is a search bar function where patients can look up a hospital. You can put in your zip code, your city or state, you can put in the procedure or condition that you're interested in. So for someone who's living in Cleveland, Ohio, they can look for hospitals that do hip replacements in their area, and then all of the hospitals will be listed for comparison,” she says.

Regional Hospitals

U.S. News selected the best regional hospitals in 25 large metropolitan areas. Here are those at the top, along with the number of best regional hospitals in the area.

Atlanta: Emory University Hospital, No. 1 out of 10 Best Hospitals in the area

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Hospital, No. 1 out of 4 Best Hospitals

Boston: Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, tied at No. 1 out of 10 Best Hospitals in the area

Chicago: Northwestern Medicine-Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Rush University Medical Center, No. 1 (tied) out of 21 Best Hospitals in the region

Cleveland: Cleveland Clinic, No. 1 out of 6 Best Hospitals

Dallas-Fort Worth: UT Southwestern Medical Center, No. 1 out of 9 Best Hospitals

Denver: UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, No. 1 out of 5 Best Hospitals Detroit: University of Michigan Health-Ann Arbor, No. 1 out of 11 Best Hospitals

Houston: Houston Methodist Hospital, No. 1 out of 12 Best Hospitals

Los Angeles: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and UCLA Medical Center, both tied at No. 1 out of 24 Best Hospitals

Miami-Fort Lauderdale: Cleveland Clinic Weston, No. 1 out of 10 Best Hospitals in the area

Minneapolis-St. Paul: M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center, No. 1 out of 9 Best Hospitals

New York: Hackensack University Medical Center at Hackensack Meridian Health, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell and NYU Langone Hospitals, all tied at No. 1 out of 25 Best Hospitals

Orlando: AdventHealth Orlando, No. 1 out of 3 Best Hospitals

Philadelphia: Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, No. 1 out of 12 Best Hospitals in the region

Phoenix: Mayo Clinic-Arizona, No. 1 out of 5 Best Hospitals

Raleigh-Durham: Duke University Hospital, No. 1 out of 6 Best Hospitals

Riverside-San Bernardino: Loma Linda University Medical Center, No. 1 out of 3 Best Hospitals

Sacramento: UC Davis Medical Center, No. 1 out of 7 Best Hospitals

San Antonio: Methodist Hospital-San Antonio, No. 1 out of 3 Best Hospitals

San Diego: UC San Diego Health-La Jolla, Hillcrest, and East Campus Medical Centers, No. 1 out of 8 Best Hospitals

San Francisco: UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center, No. 1 out of 9 Best Hospitals in the area

Seattle: Virginia Mason Medical Center, No. 1 out of 10 Best Hospitals

Tampa-St. Petersburg: Tampa General Hospital, No. 1 out of 7 Best Hospitals

Washington, D.C.: Inova Fairfax Hospital, No. 1 out of 9 Best Hospitals near Washington, D.C.

Honor Roll

These are the 20 hospitals named to the 2025-26 U.S. News Best Hospitals’ Honor Roll.

AdventHealth Orlando, Florida

Brigham & 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 Medical Center, Philadelphia

Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland

Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

Mayo Clinic-Arizona, Phoenix

Mayo Clinic-Rochester, Minnesota

Mount Sinai Hospital, New York

New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia and Cornell

Northwestern Medicine, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago

NYU Langone Hospitals, New York

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