Healthgrades selects America’s 50 top hospitals for 2025

Among thousands of hospitals nationwide, Healthgrades has announced its picks for the best hospitals for 2025.

Healthgrades named America's top 50 hospitals for 2025, and the list includes Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

Healthgrades released its rankings of America’s 50 Best Hospitals Tuesday morning. The website also recognized America’s 100 Best Hospitals and the top 250 hospitals in the nation.

The top 50 rankings, and the other lists, include hospitals from the nation’s largest health systems. However, some smaller hospitals and systems earned recognition among the best hospitals in the country.

Brad Bowman, chief medical officer and head of data science and quality at Healthgrades, tells Chief Healthcare Executive that the top hospitals aren’t just excelling in a couple of areas.

“They are really exceptional at just about everything,” Bowman says.

He also says there’s very little separating the hospitals ranked among the top 50. “They're also amazingly close statistically,” he says.

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To compile the list, Healthgrades examined the performance of hospitals across 31 conditions and procedures, including heart attacks, pneumonia and strokes. Healthgrades analyzed Medicare in-patient data for the years 2021 through 2023. Bowman says hospitals don’t decide whether or not they want to participate in the analysis and the rankings reflect a thorough review of Medicare data on outcomes.

“They do not get to opt in or opt out. So we get the data directly from Medicare, not from them,” he says.

Bowman also lauds the mix of hospitals ranking among the country’s best. Some belong to large health organizations, but some other smaller hospitals have earned spots on the rankings.

He says the list includes “hospitals, quite frankly, I’d never heard of and I suspect most people had never heard of them as well. It's a wide range.”

HCA Healthcare, Advocate Health, CommonSpirit, and Providence all have hospitals ranked among the top 50.

About half of the hospitals come from systems that are “very well resourced,” Bowman says. While he says they should be honored for providing great care, Bowman also says the smaller hospitals deserve recognition.

“The more impressive half is probably the ones that are smaller, that are figuring out how to get it done,” he says.

Main Line Health, a system operating four acute care hospitals in the Philadelphia area, has two hospitals on the list.

Healthgrades releases its list annually, and he says last year’s report showed the top hospitals getting even better, while the hospitals that ranked toward the bottom were doing worse.

This year, Bowman says there’s still a noticeable gap between the best hospitals and those that have work to do, but the decline slowed a bit this year.

To earn a spot on America’s Top 50 hospitals, organizations have been recognized among Healthgrades’ 250 best hospitals for at least seven years. Among those institutions, Healthgrades weighs the scores.

Those hospitals ranked among the top 100 hospitals in America have all been among the top 250 for at least four years.

“A lot of these hospitals, they've had a really good 10 and 15 years, and they've never had an off year, which is how they stay on this list,” Bowman says. “It makes it doubly hard as well, because you have one bad year, and then you fall off this list, it'll take you a decade at best to get back on the list.”

Bowman says the top hospitals typically strive to improve, even if they’re doing well in many or most areas.

“I think all of these hospitals have a commitment to continuously getting better,” he says.

The top 50

Here’s the Healthgrades ranking of America’s top 50 hospitals for 2025. They’re listed by state, in alphabetical order.

Arizona

Mayo Clinic Hospital, Phoenix

California

Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Oakland (Sutter Health)

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, West Hollywood

Mills Peninsula Medical Center, Burlingame (Sutter Health)

Memorial Medical Center, Modesto (Sutter Health)

Northridge Hospital Medical Center, Northridge (CommonSpirit Health)

Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, Mission Hills (Providence)

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles (UCLA Health)

Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas, Encinitas (Scripps Health)

Scripps Health, San Diego (Scripps Health)

Stanford Health Care, Stanford

Sutter Roseville Medical Center, Roseville (Sutter Health)

Connecticut

Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk (Nuvance Health)

Florida

AdventHealth Orlando, Orlando (AdventHealth)

Cape Coral Hospital, Cape Coral (Lee Health)

Downtown Baker Hospital, Naples (NCH)

Lee Memorial Hospital, Fort Myers (Lee Health)

Mayo Clinic in Florida, Jacksonville

Georgia

Emory St. Joseph’s Hospital, Atlanta (Emory Healthcare)

Emory University Hospital, Atlanta (Emory Healthcare)

Emory University Hospital Midtown, Atlanta (Emory Healthcare)

Illinois

Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge (Advocate Health)

Kansas

​​University of Kansas Hospital, Kansas City

Maryland

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore (Johns Hopkins Medicine)

Massachusetts

Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington (Beth Israel Lahey Health)

Michigan

Ascension Providence Hospital-Southfield Campus, Southfield

Beaumont Hospital-Troy (Corewell Health)

Minnesota

Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Mary’s Campus, Rochester

Mayo Clinic Health System Mankato, Mankato

New Jersey

Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ (Atlantic Health System)

Overlook Medical Center, Summit (Atlantic Health System)

New York

Lenox Hill Hospital, New York (Northwell Health)

Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook (SUNY Health)

Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie, NY (Nuvance Health)

North Carolina

Mission Hospital, Asheville (HCA Healthcare)

Ohio

Mercy Health Fairfield Hospital, Fairfield (Bon Secours Mercy Health)

Mercy Health West Hospital, Cincinnati (Bon Secours Mercy Health)

Summa Health, Akron

The Jewish Hospital-Mercy Health, Cincinnati (Bon Secours Mercy Health)

Pennsylvania

Chester County Hospital, West Chester (Penn Medicine)

​​Lancaster General Hospital, Lancaster (Penn Medicine)

Lankenau Medical Center, Wynnewood (Main Line Health)

Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Derry Township (Penn State Health)

Reading Hospital, West Reading (Tower Health)

Riddle Memorial Hospital, Media (Main Line Health)

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

Texas

Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston

Virginia

Inova Loudoun Hospital, Leesburg (Inova Health System)

Washington state

EvergreenHealth Medical Center, Kirkland

Wisconsin

Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, Milwaukee (Froedtert ThedaCare Health)