US News’ Best Hospitals 2025-26 Honor Roll – Becker’s Hospital Review | Healthcare News

On July 29, U.S. News & World Report released its 2025-2026 Best Hospitals rankings and ratings, which evaluated more than 4,400 hospitals on measures such as risk-adjusted mortality rates, preventable complications and level of nursing care.

The latest edition of Best Hospitals, now in its 36th year, highlights 504 Best Regional Hospitals across 49 states and 95 metropolitan areas, determined solely by hospitals’ performance across the procedures and conditions ratings. The best of them are also represented on this year’s Honor Roll.  

The following 20 hospitals across 13 states made the 2025-2026 Best Hospitals Honor Roll, meaning they earned the most points out of the possible total of 567 across the 15 specialties and 22 procedures and conditions. This year, hospitals that earned at least 311 points are recognized. Read more about the methodology here. 

Arizona

Mayo Clinic-Arizona (Phoenix)

California

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles)

Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital (Palo Alto)

UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles)

UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco)

Florida

AdventHealth Orlando (Fla.)

Illinois

Northwestern Medicine-Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago)

Rush University Medical Center (Chicago)

Maryland

Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore)

Massachusetts

Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston)

Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston)

Michigan

University of Michigan Health (Ann Arbor)

Minnesota

Mayo Clinic-Rochester

New Jersey

Hackensack University Medical Center at Hackensack Meridian Health

New York

Mount Sinai Hospital (New York City)

New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell (New York City)

NYU Langone Hospitals (New York City)

Ohio

Cleveland Clinic

Pennsylvania

Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian (Philadelphia)

Texas

Houston Methodist Hospital