U.S. News & World Report announces 2024-2025 best hospitals

Key takeaways:

• U.S. News & World Report released its 35th annual Best Hospitals rankings.
• The Honor Roll comprises 20 hospitals, whereas 98 hospitals were highlighted for equitable access.

U.S. News & World Report announced its 2024-2025 Best Hospitals rankings Tuesday.

Last year, the report stopped ranking hospitals by excellence and instead featured a national Honor Roll with the best hospitals named in alphabetical order (Mayo Clinic sat atop the list for 7 years in a row before the change). This year’s list includes 466 regional hospitals, among which 20 “with exceptional breadth and depth of excellence” were named in the Honor Roll, according to a press release.

Additionally, the Best Hospitals rankings include the best regional hospitals with equitable access for the first time, with 98 hospitals highlighted “for their success in caring for patients from historically underserved communities,” according to the release.

“Choosing the right hospital to match your needs shouldn’t be a guessing game,” Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor at U.S. News, said in the release. “The 2024-2025 edition of Best Hospitals provides patients and their families clear, data-driven insights on hospital performance and empowers Americans to choose the facility best suited to their specific health care needs.”

This year’s rankings also include multiple new data refinements, such as data on care provided to outpatients and patients with Medicare Advantage insurance, which almost doubles the number of patients included in the analysis, according to U.S. News & World Report.

According to the report, the Best Hospitals Honor Roll includes the following:

• Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston;
• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles;
• Cleveland Clinic;
• Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina;
• Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia;
• Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston;
• Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore;
• Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston;
• Mayo Clinic, Phoenix;
• Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota;
• Mount Sinai Hospital, New York;
• NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, New York;
• Northwestern Medicine-Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago;
• North Shore University Hospital at Northwell Health, Manhasset, New York;
• NYU Langone Hospitals, New York;
• Rush University Medical Center, Chicago;
• Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Palo Alto, California;
• UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles;
• UC San Diego Health-La Jolla and Hillcrest Hospitals, San Diego;
• UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco.

Editor’s note: Read Healio’s coverage of the best hospitals based on specialty, including diabetes and endocrinology, cancer, special surgery, cardiology and heart surgery, ophthalmology, OB/GYN and rheumatology .

References:

• Harder B, et al. Hospital Rankings will expand use of objective data. U.S. News & World Report. https://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/second-opinion/articles/2024-05-22/hospital-rankings-will-expand-use-of-objective-data. Published May 22, 2024. Accessed July 12, 2024.
• U.S. News announces the 2024-2025 Best Hospitals. https://www.usnews.com/info/blogs/press-room/articles/2024-07-16/u-s-news-announces-the-2024-2025-best-hospitals. Published July 16, 2024. Accessed July 16, 2024.