Healthgrades recognized 373 hospitals with its 2026 Outstanding Patient Experience Award.

The organization evaluated 3,020 hospitals that submitted at least 100 patient experience surveys to CMS’ Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems between January and December 2024. Hospitals in the bottom 20% of overall clinical quality were excluded from consideration. Hospitals were evaluated on patient survey data on 10 patient experience measures. Recipients of the outstanding patient experience award earned the highest overall experience scores.

This year, 373 hospitals in 46 states were honored for patient experience, representing the top 15% of hospitals. Among 2026 recipients, 80 hospitals received both the Outstanding Patient Experience Award and the Patient Safety Excellence Award; and only 16 hospitals earned Healthgrade’s triple crown for Outstanding Patient Experience, Patient Safety Excellence and America’s Best Hospitals distinctions for 2026.

Healthgrades also found three aspects of patient experience that best predict if a patient will recommend a hospital: physician communication, nurse communication and clear communication about care when discharged.

Here are the top hospitals for patient experience:

Alabama

Baptist Medical Center East (Montgomery)

Arkansas

Baptist Health Medical Center-Conway

Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas (Rogers)

Arizona

Honorhealth Scottsdale Thompson Peak Medical Center

Mayo Clinic Hospital (Phoenix)

California

Casa Colina Hospital (Pomona)

Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula

Community Memorial Hospital San Buenaventura (Ventura)

Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital (Santa Barbara)

Hoag Hospital Newport Beach

Kaiser Permanente Orange County-Anaheim Medical Center

Kaiser Permanente Redwood City Medical Center

Kaiser Permanente Zion Medical Center (San Diego)

Keck Hospital of USC (Los Angeles)

Mammoth Hospital (Mammoth Lakes)

Mills-Peninsula Medical Center (Burlingame)

PIH Health Whittier Hospital

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital

Scripps Green Hospital (San Diego)

Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla (San Diego)

Sequoia Hospital (Redwood City)

Sharp Coronado Hospital

Sonoma Valley Hospital

Stanford Hospital

Sutter Amador Hospital (Jackson)

Sutter Roseville Medical Center

Torrance Memorial Medical Center

UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights (San Francisco)

Colorado

Animas Surgical Hospital (Durango)

CommonSpirit Mercy Hospital (Durango)

CommonSpirit St. Mary-Corwin Hospital (Pueblo)

Foothills Hospital (Boulder)

Medical Center of the Rockies (Loveland)

Rose Women’s Hospital (Denver)

Saint Joseph Hospital (Denver)

UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital

Connecticut

UConn John Dempsey Hospital (Farmington)

Florida

AdventHealth Wesley Chapel

Baptist Medical Center Beaches (Jacksonville Beach)

BayCare Hospital Wesley Chapel

HCA Florida Twin Cities Hospital (Niceville)

Mayo Clinic in Florida (Jacksonville)

Mease Dunedin Hospital

Morton Plant North Bay Hospital (New Port Richey)

Sarasota Memorial Hospital Venice (North Venice)

Georgia

Fairview Park Hospital (Dublin)

Higgins General Hospital (Bremen)

Memorial Health Meadows Hospital (Vidalia)

Northside Hospital Cherokee (Canton)

Northside Hospital Forsyth (Cumming)

Piedmont Columbus Regional Northside

Southeastern Regional Medical Center (Newnan)

Wellstar West Georgia Medical Center (Lagrange)

Hawaii

Adventist Health Castle (Kailua)

Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center (Honolulu)

Pali Momi Medical Center (Aiea)

Iowa

Iowa Specialty Hospital Belmond

Mary Greeley Medical Center (Ames)

Mercy Medical Center Cedar Rapids

MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center

Methodist Jennie Edmundson (Council Bluffs)

Orange City Area Health System

Spencer Municipal Hospital

UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s Hospital-Cedar Rapids

Van Diest Medical Center (Webster City)

Idaho

Idaho Falls Community Hospital

St. Luke’s Boise Medical Center

St. Luke’s Nampa Medical Center

West Valley Medical Center (Caldwell)

Illinois

Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital (Barrington)

Alton Memorial Hospital

HSHS St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (O’Fallon)

HSHS St. Joseph’s Hospital Breese

Memorial Hospital Belleville

Midwest Medical Center (Galena)

Midwestern Region Medical Center (Zion)

Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers

Northwestern Medicine Central Dupage Hospital (Winfield)

Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital (Geneva)

Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital

Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago)

SIH St. Joseph Memorial Hospital (Murphysboro)

Indiana

Ascension St. Vincent Heart Center (Carmel)

Community Hospital East (Indianapolis)

Franciscan Health Lafayette East

Franciscan Health Mooresville

Franciscan Health Orthopedic Hospital Carmel

Hendricks Regional Health (Danville)

Henry Community Health (New Castle)

Lutheran Downtown Hospital (Fort Wayne)

OrthoIndy Hospital (Indianapolis)

Unity Physicians Hospital (Mishawaka)

Kansas

AdventHealth South Overland Park

Ascension Via Christi Hospital Pittsburg

Kansas City Orthopaedic Institute (Leawood)

Kansas Heart Hospital (Wichita)

Kansas Surgery and Recovery Center (Wichita)

Labette Health (Parsons)

Manhattan Surgical Hospital

Salina Surgical Hospital

Summit Surgical (Hutchinson)

University of Kansas Hospital (Kansas City)

Kentucky

Baptist Health La Grange

Baptist Health Lexington

Baptist Health Richmond

Logan Memorial Hospital (Russellville)

Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community Hospital (Greenville)

Saint Joseph Berea

Saint Joseph London

Louisiana

AVALA Hospital (Covington)

Christus Central Louisiana Surgical Hospital (Alexandria)

Citizens Medical Center (Columbia)

Cypress Pointe Surgical Hospital (Hammond)

Lafayette Surgical Specialty Hospital

Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center (Houma)

Ochsner Saint Anne General Hospital (Raceland)

Ochsner University Hospital and Clinics (Lafayette)

Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center (Lafayette)

Saint Tammany Parish Hospital (Covington)

The Spine Hospital of Louisiana at the NeuroMedical Center (Baton Rouge)

West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital (Sulphur)

Massachusetts

Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston)

Fairview Hospital (Great Barrington)

Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston)

Tufts Medical Center (Boston)

Maryland

Garrett Regional Medical Center (Oakland)

The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore)

University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center (Towson)

Maine

Maine General Medical Center (Augusta)

Northern Light Mercy Hospital (Portland)

York Hospital

Michigan

Chelsea Hospital

Corewell Health Ludington Hospital

Holland Hospital

MyMichigan Medical Center Alpena

MyMichigan Medical Center Gladwin

MyMichigan Medical Center West Branch

Sparrow Carson Hospital (Carson City)

Trinity Health Grand Rapids Hospital

Trinity Health Shelby Hospital

University Hospital-University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)

Minnesota

Allina Health Faribault Medical Center

Fairview Range Medical Center (Hibbing)

Glacial Ridge Hospital (Glenwood)

Lake Region Healthcare Corp. (Fergus Falls)

Lakeview Hospital (Stillwater)

Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus (Rochester)

Mora Hospital

North Memorial Health-Maple Grove Hospital

Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital (Saint Louis Park)

Ridgeview Medical Center (Waconia)

River’s Edge Hospital and Clinic (Saint Peter)

Riverwood Healthcare Center (Aitkin)

Missouri

Barnes Jewish Hospital (St. Louis)

Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital (Creve Coeur)

Cox Barton County Hospital (Lamar)

Cox Monett Hospital (Monett)

Mercy Hospital Jefferson (Festus)

Missouri Baptist Medical Center (St. Louis)

Parkland Health Center (Farmington)

Saint Luke’s East Hospital (Lee’s Summit)

Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City

St. Luke’s Des Peres Hospital (St. Louis)

St. Luke’s Hospital (Chesterfield)

Mississippi

Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi (Oxford)

Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union County (New Albany)

Montana

Bozeman Health Deaconess Regional Medical Center

Intermountain Health St. Vincent Regional Hospital (Billings)

Saint Patrick Hospital (Missoula)

North Carolina

AdventHealth Hendersonville

Atrium Health Lincoln

Duke University Hospital (Durham)

FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital (Pinehurst)

Johnston Health (Smithfield)

Northern Regional Hospital (Mount Airy)

Novant Health Medical Park Hospital (Winston-Salem)

Novant Health Mint Hill Medical Center (Charlotte)

Pardee Hospital (Hendersonville)

Rex Hospital (Raleigh)

University of North Carolina Hospital (Chapel Hill)

Vidant Duplin Hospital (Kenansville)

Vidant Edgecombe Hospital (Tarboro)

Watauga Medical Center (Boone)

Nebraska

Boone County Health Center (Albion)

Brodstone Healthcare (Superior)

Bryan East Campus (Lincoln)

CHI Health Nebraska Heart (Lincoln)

Community Medical Center (Falls City)

Faith Regional Health Services (Norfolk)

Methodist Fremont Health

Methodist Hospital (Omaha)

Midwest Surgical Hospital (Omaha)

Nebraska Spine Hospital (Omaha)

Orthonebraska Hospital (Omaha)

Phelps Memorial Health Center (Holdrege)

New Hampshire

Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital (Lebanon)

Frisbie Memorial Hospital (Rochester)

Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital (Lebanon)

Memorial Hospital (North Conway)

Wentworth-Douglass Hospital (Dover)

New Jersey

Deborah Heart and Lung Center (Browns Mills)

New Mexico

Three Crosses Regional Hospital (Las Cruces)

Nevada

Saint Rose Dominican Hospitals San Martin (Las Vegas)

New York

Adirondack Medical Center Saranac Lake

Clifton Springs Hospital and Clinic (Clifton Springs)

Glen Cove Hospital

Hospital for Special Surgery (New York City)

Mather Hospital (Port Jefferson)

St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center (Roslyn)

UHS Delaware Valley Hospital (Walton)

Ohio

Avon Hospital at Richard E. Jacobs Campus

Berger Hospital (Circleville)

Christ Hospital (Cincinnati)

Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center (Akron)

Dublin Methodist Hospital

Grady Memorial Hospital (Delaware)

Holzer Gallipolis

Kettering Health Troy

Madison Health (London)

Mary Rutan Health (Bellefontaine)

McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital (Oxford)

Memorial Hospital (Marysville)

Mercer County Community Hospital (Coldwater)

Mercy Health Tiffin Hospital

Mercy Health-Allen Hospital (Oberlin)

ProMedica Defiance Regional Hospital

Soin Medical Center (Beavercreek)

Surgical Hospital at Southwoods (Youngstown)

UH Regional Hospitals (Chardon)

University Hospitals Samaritan Medical Center (Ashland)

Van Wert County Hospital

Wood County Hospital (Bowling Green)

Wooster Community Hospital

Oklahoma

Oklahoma Heart Hospital South (Oklahoma City)

Saint Francis Hospital (Tulsa)

Saint Francis Hospital South (Tulsa)

SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital-Shawnee

Talihina Health Care Center

Tulsa Spine & Specialty Hospital

Oregon

Grande Ronde Hospital (La Grande)

Kaiser Permanente Westside Medical Center (Hillsboro)

Providence Portland Medical Center

St. Charles Bend

Pennsylvania

Advanced Surgical Hospital (Washington)

AHN Wexford Hospital

Bryn Mawr Hospital

Canonsburg General Hospital

Chester County Hospital (West Chester)

Doylestown Hospital

Evangelical Community Hospital (Lewisburg)

Geisinger Medical Center Muncy

Geisinger St. Luke’s Hospital (Orwigsburg)

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)

Jefferson Hospital (Jefferson Hills)

Mount Nittany Medical Center (State College)

OSS Orthopaedic Hospital (York)

Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center (Enola)

Physician’s Care Surgical Hospital (Royersford)

Rothman Orthopaedic Specialty Hospital (Bensalem)

St. Luke’s Hospital-Carbon Campus (Lehighton)

St. Luke’s Hospital-Easton Campus

St. Luke’s Hospital-Upper Bucks Campus (Quakertown)

Surgical Institute of Reading (Wyomissing)

UPMC Harrisburg

UPMC Muncy

UPMC Passavant-McCandless (Pittsburgh)

UPMC Somerset

West Penn Hospital (Pittsburgh)

Rhode Island

South County Hospital (Wakefield)

Westerly Hospital

South Carolina

Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital (Charleston)

McLeod Health Clarendon (Manning)

McLeod Health Dillon

McLeod Loris Hospital

Newberry County Memorial Hospital

Pelham Medical Center (Greer)

Prisma Health Greer Memorial Hospital

Roper Hospital (Charleston)

Roper St. Francis Berkeley Hospital (Summerville)

Roper St. Francis Mount Pleasant Hospital

South Dakota

Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota (Sioux Falls)

Avera Sacred Heart Hospital (Yankton)

Black Hills Surgical Hospital (Rapid City)

Sioux Falls Specialty Hospital

Tennessee

Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City

Henry County Medical Center (Paris)

Roane Medical Center (Harriman)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville)

Texas

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center-College Station

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center-Hillcrest (Waco)

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center-Plano

Baylor Scott and White Medical Center-Waxahachie

Baylor Scott and White the Heart Hospital Plano

Christus Mother Frances Hospital Sulphur Springs

Citizens Medical Center (Victoria)

Hill Country Memorial Hospital (Fredericksburg)

Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital

Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital

Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital

Houston Methodist the Woodlands Hospital

Houston Methodist West Hospital

Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital

Houston Physicians’ Hospital (Webster)

Methodist Mansfield Medical Center

Palo Pinto General Hospital (Mineral Wells)

Peterson Regional Medical Center (Kerrville)

Quail Creek Surgical Hospital (Amarillo)

South Texas Spine and Surgical Hospital (San Antonio)

St. Luke’s Health-The Vintage Hospital (Houston)

Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Cleburne

Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Stephenville

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Flower Mound

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Kaufman

Texas Institute for Surgery at Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas

The Physicians Centre Hospital (Bryan)

UT Health North Campus Tyler

UT Health Pittsburg

William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital (Dallas)

Utah

American Fork Hospital

Heber Valley Hospital (Heber City)

LDS Hospital (Salt Lake City)

Logan Regional Hospital

Mountain View Hospital (Payson)

Saint George Regional Hospital

University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics (Salt Lake City)

Utah Valley Hospital (Provo)

Virginia

Buchanan General Hospital (Grundy)

Centra Bedford Memorial Hospital

Inova Fair Oaks Hospital (Fairfax)

Inova Fairfax Hospital (Falls Church)

Lewisgale Hospital Montgomery (Blacksburg)

Lewisgale Hospital Pulaski

Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital (Charlottesville)

Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center

UVA Health Sciences Center (Charlottesville)

Washington

Evergreenhealth Medical Center-Kirkland

Island Hospital (Anacortes)

Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center (Vancouver)

Tri-State Memorial Hospital (Clarkston)

UW Medical Center-Montlake (Seattle)

Wisconsin

Aurora Baycare Medical Center (Green Bay)

Aurora Lakeland Medical Center (Elkhorn)

Aurora Medical Center-Bay Area (Marinette)

Aurora Medical Center-Grafton

Aurora Medical Center-Oshkosh

Bellin Memorial Hospital (Green Bay)

Door County Medical Center (Sturgeon Bay)

Froedtert Holy Family Memorial Hospital (Manitowoc)

Grant Regional Health Center (Lancaster)

Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center (La Crosse)

Howard Young Medical Center (Woodruff)

HSHS St. Nicholas Hospital (Sheboygan)

Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire

Mayo Clinic Health System-Franciscan Healthcare La Crosse

Midwest Orthopedic Specialty Hospital (Franklin)

Oakleaf Surgical Hospital (Altoona)

Orthopaedic Hospital of Wisconsin (Glendale)

ProHealth Waukesha Memorial Hospital

River Falls Area Hospital

Sauk Prairie Hospital (Prairie du Sac)

Southwest Health Center (Platteville)

SSM Health Monroe Hospital (Monroe)

SSM Health St. Clare Hospital-Baraboo

ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Appleton

Tomah Health

UnityPoint Health-Meriter (Madison)

University Hospital (Madison)

Westfields Hospital & Clinic (New Richmond)

West Virginia

Valley Health War Memorial Hospital (Berkeley Springs)

Welch Community Hospital

Wyoming

Cheyenne Regional Medical Center-West Campus

Ivinson Memorial Hospital (Laramie)

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