As designated by the U.S. Census Bureau, the South is defined as Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.
Click each hospital to read its individual profile.
Note: These hospitals appeared on the “100 Great Hospitals in America” list published in March 2015. This list is published annually in the spring. View the full list here.
1. Baylor University Medical Center (Dallas)
2. CHI St. Vincent Infirmary (Little Rock, Ark.)
3. Christiana Care Health System (Wilmington, Del.)
4. Duke University Hospital (Durham, N.C.)
5. Emory University Hospital (Atlanta)
7. Hill Country Memorial Hospital (Fredericksburg, Texas)
9. Inova Fairfax Hospital (Falls Church, Va.)
10. Integris Baptist Medical Center (Oklahoma City)
11. The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore)
12. MedStar Washington (D.C.) Hospital Center
13. Mercy Medical Center (Baltimore)
14. Nemours Children’s Hospital (Orlando, Fla.)
15. Ochsner Medical Center (New Orleans)
16. Sentara Norfolk (Va.) General Hospital
17. Spartanburg (S.C.) Medical Center
18. St. David’s Medical Center (Austin, Texas)
19. Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital
20. Texas Children’s Hospital (Houston)
21. UAB Hospital (Birmingham, Ala.)
22. UF Health Shands Hospital (Gainesville, Fla.)
23. University of Maryland Medical Center (Baltimore)
24. University of North Carolina Hospitals (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
25. University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston)
26. Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, Tenn.)
27. Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center (Richmond, Va.)
28. Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center (Winston-Salem, N.C.)