Epic recognized 87 U.S. health systems across its 2026 Honor Roll, Gold Stars and MyChart Honor Roll programs at its Users Group Meeting in Verona, Wis.
Launched in 2017, the EHR vendor’s voluntary Honor Roll Good Maintenance Grant Program provides financial incentives to health systems that adopt its best practices and latest features. The criteria include ease of use for providers and nurses, enterprise data and analytics, financial, health information exchange, infrastructure, patient experience, population health, and staying current.
The incentives are not insignificant. Baton Rouge, La.-based FMOL Health received a $755,000 grant from Epic after earning the program’s top tier, summa cum laude, for the third time, while Philadelphia-based Temple Health garnered a $418,000 grant at the cum laude level.
Gold Stars, by contrast, does not come with a financial grant. The program instead measures how many relevant Epic features a health system has configured, and separately, how thoroughly staff actually use what’s been turned on. Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner told attendees during her Aug. 18 keynote that organizations with higher Gold Stars scores tend to perform better financially, though she cautioned the company could not say the relationship was causal.
“The folks with more stars do better financially,” Ms. Faulkner said. “Think about what you could do with another percent or two of extra margin.”
Among this year’s Gold Stars honorees, Jacksonville, Fla.-based Baptist Health became the first health system in the program’s history to earn a perfect 10 for usage.
Here is the full list of U.S. hospitals and health systems Epic recognized at this year’s meeting, as shown during the vendor’s keynote presentation:
Honor Roll
Summa cum laude (all eight components)
- Baptist Health (Jacksonville, Fla.)
- Baylor Scott & White Health (Dallas)
- Children’s Hospital Colorado (Aurora)
- Englewood Health (Englewood, N.J.)
- FMOL Health (Baton Rouge, La.)
- Guthrie (Sayre, Pa.)
- Inova (Fairfax, Va.)
- Hawaii Pacific Health (Honolulu)
- MetroHealth (Cleveland)
- NYU Langone Health (New York City)
- University Hospitals (Cleveland)
- WakeMed (Raleigh, N.C.)
Magna cum laude (seven of eight components)
- Cedars-Sinai (Los Angeles)
- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- Cincinnati Children’s
- Denver Health
- Greater Baltimore Medical Center
- Johns Hopkins Medicine (Baltimore)
- Lee Health (Fort Myers, Fla.)
- Lehigh Valley Health Network (Allentown, Pa.)
- Mercy Health Services (Baltimore)
- Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (Columbus)
- Scripps Health (San Diego)
- UCHealth (Aurora, Colo.)
- UI Health (Chicago)
- UMass Memorial Health (Worcester, Mass.)
- UW Medicine (Seattle)
- WVU Medicine (Morgantown, W.Va.)
Cum laude (five or six of eight components)
- Advocate Health (Illinois and Wisconsin)
- Allegheny Health Network (Pittsburgh)
- Beth Israel Lahey Health (Cambridge, Mass.)
- Bronson Healthcare (Kalamazoo, Mich.)
- Bryan Health (Lincoln, Neb.)
- Carle Health (Urbana, Ill.)
- Corewell Health (Grand Rapids and Southfield, Mich.)
- Essentia Health (Duluth, Minn.)
- Fairview Health Services (Minneapolis)
- FirstHealth of the Carolinas (Pinehurst, N.C.)
- Franciscan Alliance (Mishawaka, Ind.)
- HonorHealth (Scottsdale, Ariz.)
- Kennedy Krieger Institute (Baltimore)
- Lakeland (Fla.) Regional Health
- Mercy Medical Center (Baltimore)
- Nemours Children’s Health (Jacksonville, Fla.)
- Northwestern Medicine (Chicago)
- NYC Health + Hospitals (New York City)
- Ochsner Health (New Orleans)
- Overlake Hospital Medical Center (Bellevue, Wash.)
- PeaceHealth (Vancouver, Wash.)
- Penn Medicine (Philadelphia)
- Piedmont Healthcare (Atlanta)
- Pikeville (Ky.) Medical Center
- ProMedica (Toledo, Ohio)
- RWJBarnabas Health (West Orange, N.J.)
- Samaritan Health Services (Corvallis, Ore.)
- Sentara Health (Norfolk, Va.)
- Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System (Spartanburg, S.C.)
- St. Luke’s Health System (Boise, Idaho)
- Stormont Vail Health (Topeka, Kan.)
- Summa Health (Akron, Ohio)
- Temple Health (Philadelphia)
- ThedaCare (Neenah, Wis.)
- UConn Health (Farmington, Conn.)
- UK HealthCare (Lexington, Ky.)
- University Health (San Antonio)
- University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (Little Rock)
- Valley Medical Center & Clinics (Renton, Wash.)
- Valleywise Health (Phoenix)
- Wellstar (Marietta, Ga.)
- Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health System
MyChart Honor Roll
Epic also introduced a new, separate honor roll recognizing best practices specifically around MyChart, the vendor’s patient-facing portal.
Magna cum laude
- Mount Sinai (New York City)
Summa cum laude
- Cleveland Clinic
- Inova (Fairfax, Va.)
Gold Stars
Gold Stars measures both how many relevant Epic features an organization has configured (“configuration”) and how well staff actually use what’s been turned on (“usage”).
Configuration (10)
- AdventHealth (Altamonte Springs, Fla.)
- Advocate Health (Illinois and Wisconsin)
- Advocate Health (North Carolina and Georgia)
- Aspen Valley Health (Aspen, Colo.)
- Baptist Memorial Health Care (Memphis, Tenn.)
- Baptist Health (Jacksonville, Fla.)
- Broward Health (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)
- Cape Fear Valley Health (Fayetteville, N.C.)
- Children’s Hospital Colorado (Aurora)
- Corewell Health (Grand Rapids and Southfield, Mich.)
- Cottage Health (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
- El Camino Health (Mountain View, Calif.)
- Emory Healthcare (Atlanta)
- FMOL Health (Baton Rouge, La.)
- Guthrie (Sayre, Pa.)
- HealthFirst (Rockledge, Fla.)
- Inova (Fairfax, Va.)
- Ochsner Health (New Orleans)
- OU Health (Oklahoma City)
- Parkview Health (Fort Wayne, Ind.)
- Reid Health (Richmond, Ind.)
- RWJBarnabas Health (West Orange, N.J.)
- UMass Memorial Health (Worcester, Mass.)
- University Health (San Antonio)
- University Hospitals (Cleveland)
- UTHealth Houston
Usage (10) — first time awarded
- Baptist Health (Jacksonville, Fla.)
Usage (9)
- AdventHealth (Altamonte Springs, Fla.)
- Advocate Health (Illinois and Wisconsin)
- Advocate Health (North Carolina and Georgia)
- Corewell Health (Grand Rapids and Southfield, Mich.)
- Inova (Fairfax, Va.)
- RWJBarnabas Health (West Orange, N.J.)
- UMass Memorial Health (Worcester, Mass.)
Usage (8)
- Baptist Memorial Health Care (Memphis, Tenn.)
- CarolinaEast Health System (New Bern, N.C.)
- Children’s Hospital Colorado (Aurora)
- Emory Healthcare (Atlanta)
- FMOL Health (Baton Rouge, La.)
- Guthrie (Sayre, Pa.)
- HealthFirst (Rockledge, Fla.)
- Ochsner Health (New Orleans)
- Parkview Health (Fort Wayne, Ind.)
- Reid Health (Richmond, Ind.)
- University Hospitals (Cleveland)
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