U.S. News & World Report released its 2026-27 Best Hospitals rankings and ratings Aug. 4, which included a list of 505 Best Regional Hospitals across 49 states and the District of Columbia.
The latest edition of Best Hospitals, now in its 37th year, evaluated hospitals on measures such as risk-adjusted mortality rates, preventable complications and patient experience. This year’s rankings placed significantly greater weight on risk-adjusted patient outcome measures in determining results. For the first time, Maternity Care recognition was also incorporated into Best Regional Hospitals point calculations. More information about the methodology is available here and here.
Below is a list of the No. 1 Best Regional Hospital in each state, based on performance across procedures and conditions, organized alphabetically by state.
Note: Wyoming does not have any hospitals that met the requirements for inclusion in the regional rankings. This list includes ties.
Alabama
University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital
Alaska
Providence Alaska Medical Center (Anchorage)
Arizona
Mayo Clinic-Arizona (Phoenix)
Arkansas
Washington Regional Medical Center-Fayetteville
California
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles)
Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital
UC San Diego Health-La Jolla, Hillcrest and East Campus Medical Centers
UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center (Los Angeles)
UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco)
Colorado
Intermountain Health St. Joseph Hospital (Denver)
Connecticut
Yale New Haven Hospital.
Delaware
ChristianaCare Hospitals (Newark)
District of Columbia
MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Florida
Mayo Clinic-Florida (Jacksonville)
Georgia
Emory University Hospital Atlanta
Hawaii
Queen’s Medical Center (Honolulu)
Idaho
St. Luke’s Boise Medical Center
Illinois
Northwestern Medicine-Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago)
Rush University Medical Center (Chicago)
Indiana
Franciscan Health Indianapolis
Iowa
University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center (Iowa City)
Kansas
University of Kansas Hospital (Kansas City)
Kentucky
St. Elizabeth Healthcare Edgewood-Covington Hospitals (Edgewood)
Louisiana
Ochsner Medical Center (New Orleans)
Maine
Maine Medical Center (Portland)
Maryland
Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore)
Massachusetts
Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston)
Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston)
Michigan
University of Michigan Health-Ann Arbor
Minnesota
Mayo Clinic-Rochester
Mississippi
Mississippi Baptist Medical Center (Jackson)
Missouri
Barnes-Jewish Hospital (St. Louis)
Montana
Providence St. Patrick Hospital (Missoula)
Nebraska
Nebraska Medicine-Nebraska Medical Center (Omaha)
Nevada
MountainView Hospital (Las Vegas)
New Hampshire
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon)
New Jersey
Hackensack University Medical Center at Hackensack Meridian Health
New Mexico
Presbyterian Hospital (Albuquerque)
New York
Mount Sinai Hospital (New York City)
NYU Langone Hospitals (New York City)
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell (New York City)
North Carolina
Duke University Hospital (Durham)
North Dakota
Sanford Medical Center Bismarck
Ohio
Cleveland Clinic
Oklahoma
St. Francis Hospital-Tulsa
Oregon
Oregon Health & Science University Hospital (Portland)
Pennsylvania
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
Rhode Island
Miriam Hospital (Providence)
South Carolina
MUSC Health-University Medical Center (Charleston)
South Dakota
Sanford USD Medical Center (Sioux Falls)
Tennessee
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville)
Texas
Houston Methodist Hospital
Utah
Intermountain Health St. George Regional Hospital (St. George)
Vermont
University of Vermont Medical Center (Burlington)
Virginia
VCU Medical Center (Richmond)
Washington
Virginia Mason Medical Center (Seattle)
West Virginia
West Virginia University Hospitals (Morgantown)
Wisconsin
UW Health University Hospital (Madison)
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