Three-quarters of the hospitals on U.S. News & World Report’s 2025-26 Honor Roll list also earned top marks in CMS’ latest Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings, underscoring a notable overlap in national measures of hospital excellence.
CMS released its 2025 star ratings Aug. 6, evaluating more than 4,600 hospitals nationwide on 46 quality measures spanning mortality, safety, patient experience, readmissions, and timely and effective care. This year, 290 hospitals earned a five-star rating. U.S. News published its 2025-26 Honor Roll on July 29, recognizing 20 hospitals for top performance across 15 specialties and 22 procedures and conditions.
While the two lists use different methodologies and scoring systems, their alignment highlights organizations that excel across quality- and reputation-based benchmarks.
Here are the CMS star ratings for U.S. News’ 2026-26 Honor Roll hospitals:
Arizona
Mayo Clinic in Arizona (Phoenix) — Five stars
California
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles) — Five stars
Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital (Palo Alto) — Five stars
UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles) — Four stars
UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco) — Five stars
Florida
AdventHealth Orlando — Three stars
Illinois
Northwestern Medicine-Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago) — Five stars
Rush University Medical Center (Chicago) — Five stars
Maryland
Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore) — Four stars
Massachusetts
Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston) — Five stars
Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston) — Five stars
Michigan
University of Michigan Health (Ann Arbor) — Four stars
Minnesota
Mayo Clinic-Rochester — Five stars
New Jersey
Hackensack University Medical Center at Hackensack Meridian Health — Five stars
New York
Mount Sinai Hospital (New York City) — Three stars
New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell (New York City) — Five stars
NYU Langone Hospitals (New York City) — Five stars
Ohio
Cleveland Clinic — Five stars
Pennsylvania
Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian (Philadelphia) — Five stars
Texas
Houston Methodist Hospital — Five stars
