Forbes launched an inaugural quality ranking of U.S. general acute care hospitals Dec. 4; it analyzes data on outcomes, best practices, value and patient experience.
The media company said its list, “Forbes Top Hospitals 2026,” differs from other hospital rankings and ratings in three key ways. First, the primary quality measures derive from CMS’ Provider Data Catalog; second, the methodology places the most weight on clinical outcomes, including mortality and readmission rates; and third, clinical outcomes are statistically adjusted for social drivers of health.
Forbes assigned a star rating, from one to five, across four categories to calculate a hospital’s overall score. The outcome category included 25 publicly reported measures, such as “surgical site infection after colon surgery” and “30-day readmission after discharge,” according to Forbes. Best practices had 10 measures, value had seven and patient experience had 14.
Outcomes carried a 55% weight in the overall calculation, followed by best practices (20%), value (15%) and patient experience (10%). Based on this criteria, Forbes recognized 259 hospitals with an overall five-star rating.
Editor’s note: On Jan. 15, Forbes republished its ranking due to an error that affected data calculations.
Forbes‘ five-star hospitals, by state:
Editor’s note: The list excludes children’s hospitals and psychiatric hospitals.
Alabama
Southeast Health Medical Center (Dothan)
Arizona
Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center (Sun City West)
Kingman Regional Medical Center
Mayo Clinic in Arizona (Phoenix)
Mercy Gilbert Medical Center
Summit Healthcare Regional Medical Center (Show Low)
Arkansas
Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas (Rogers)
Washington Regional Medical Center (Fayetteville)
California
Adventist Health Howard Memorial (Willits)
Adventist Health Ukiah Valley
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center Summit Campus (Oakland)
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian (Newport Beach)
MarinHealth Medical Center (Greenbrae)
Mills-Peninsula Medical Center-Burlingame Campus
Providence St. Joseph Hospital Eureka
Sequoia Hospital (Redwood City)
Scripps Green Hospital (La Jolla)
Sharp Coronado Hospital
Stanford Health Care
Sutter Davis Hospital
Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital
Sutter Tracy Community Hospital
UC San Diego Health Hillcrest Medical Center
Woodland Memorial Hospital
Colorado
CommonSpirit Mercy Hospital (Durango)
CommonSpirit Penrose Hospital (Colorado Springs)
CommonSpirit St. Elizabeth Hospital (Fort Morgan)
CommonSpirit St. Thomas More Hospital (Canon City)
Intermountain Health St. Joseph Hospital (Denver)
UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital
UCHealth Longs Peak Hospital (Longmont)
UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital (Fort Collins)
UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital (Aurora)
Vail Health Hospital
Delaware
TidalHealth Nanticoke (Seaford)
Florida
AdventHealth Daytona Beach
AdventHealth Fish Memorial (Orange City)
AdventHealth Waterman (Tavares)
AdventHealth Zephyrhills
Baptist Health West Kendall Baptist Hospital (Miami)
Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital (Vero Beach)
Mayo Clinic in Florida (Jacksonville)
Santa Rosa Medical Center (Milton)
Sarasota Memorial Hospital-Sarasota Campus
Viera Hospital (Melbourne)
Georgia
AdventHealth Murray (Chatsworth)
AdventHealth Redmond (Rome)
Idaho
Kootenai Health (Coeur d’Alene)
St. Luke’s Magic Valley Medical Center (Twin Falls)
St. Luke’s Wood River Medical Center (Ketchum)
West Valley Medical Center (Caldwell)
Illinois
Ascension St. Joseph-Chicago
Blessing Hospital (Quincy)
Crawford Memorial Hospital (Robinson)
Northwestern Medicine Catherine Gratz Griffin Lake Forest Hospital
Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital (Winfield)
Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital
Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago)
Rush University Medical Center (Chicago)
St. Mary’s Hospital (Kankakee)
UChicago Medicine AdventHealth La Grange
Indiana
Ascension St. Vincent Fishers Hospital
Ascension St. Vincent Heart Center (Carmel)
Elkhart General Hospital
Franciscan Health Crawfordsville
Hendricks Regional Health (Danville)
MHP Major Hospital (Shelbyville)
Schneck Medical Center (Seymour)
Iowa
Cass County Memorial Hospital (Atlantic)
MercyOne Newtown Medical Center
MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center
Kansas
Ascension Via Christi St. Theresa (Wichita)
Kansas Heart Hospital (Wichita)
Pratt Regional Medical Center
St. Luke’s South Hospital (Overland Park)
University of Kansas Hospital (Kansas City)
Wesley Medical Center (Wichita)
Kentucky
Baptist Health Paducah
Meadowview Regional Medical Center (Maysville)
Owensboro Health Twin Lakes Medical Center (Leitchfield, Ky.)
St. Elizabeth Healthcare Edgewood Hospital
Louisiana
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital
Maine
Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center (Bangor)
Maryland
MedStar Union Memorial Hospital (Baltimore)
University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center (Towson)
Massachusetts
Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital (Boston)
Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston)
Michigan
Bronson Battle Creek Hospital
Bronson Methodist Hospital (Kalamazoo)
Corewell Health Greenville Hospital
Corewell Health Lakeland Hospitals-St. Joseph Hospital
Corewell Health Ludington Hospital
Holland Hospital
Munson Healthcare Grayling Hospital
Munson Medical Center (Traverse City)
Trinity Health Ann Arbor Hospital
UP Health System-Portage (Hancock)
Minnesota
Avera Marshall Regional Medical Center
Buffalo Hospital
Essentia Health St. Joseph’s Medical Center (Brainerd)
Essentia Health St. Mary’s-Detroit Lakes
Lake Region Healthcare (Fergus Falls)
M Health Fairview Southdale Hospital (Edina)
M Health Fairview St. John’s Hospital (Maplewood)
Mayo Clinic Health System in Albert Lea
Mayo Clinic Health System in Fairmont
Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato
Mayo Clinic in Rochester
Olmsted Medical Center (Rochester)
Ridgeview Medical Center (Waconia)
Sanford Worthington Medical Center
Missouri
Boone Hospital Center (Columbia)
Cox Medical Center Branson
Mercy Hospital Lebanon
Mosaic Life Care at St. Joseph
Parkland Health Center (Farmington)
St. Luke’s North Hospital-Barry Road (Kansas City)
Montana
Bozeman Health Deaconess Regional Medical Center
Providence St. Patrick Hospital (Missoula)
Nebraska
Avera St. Anthony’s Hospital
CHI Health St. Francis (Grand Island)
New Jersey
Morristown Medical Center
Overlook Medical Center (Summit)
New Mexico
Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center (Santa Fe)
New York
Adirondack Medical Center-Saranac Lake
Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center (Ogdensburg)
Jones Memorial Hospital (Wellsville)
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (New York City)
NYU Langone Health (New York City)
North Carolina
CaroMont Regional Medical Center (Gastonia)
Duke Regional Hospital (Durham, N.C.)
Duke University Hospital (Durham, N.C.)
Mission Hospital (Asheville)
Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center (Winston-Salem)
Novant Health Huntersville Medical Center
Novant Health Matthews Medical Center
Scotland Memorial Hospital (Laurinburg)
UNC Health Pardee (Hendersonville)
UNC Health Rex (Raleigh)
WakeMed Cary Hospital
North Dakota
Sanford Bismarck Medical Center
Sanford Medical Center Fargo
Ohio
Aultman Hospital (Canton)
Cleveland Clinic Akron General
Cleveland Clinic Avon Hospital at Richard E. Jacobs Health Campus
Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital
Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest Hospital (Mayfield Heights)
Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Cleveland Clinic Medina Hospital
East Liverpool City Hospital
Genesis Hospital (Zanesville)
Memorial Hospital (Marysville)
Mercy Health-Springfield Regional Medical Center
OhioHealth Marion General Hospital
ProMedica Memorial Hospital (Fremont)
ProMedica Toledo Hospital
The Christ Hospital (Cincinnati)
Wooster Community Hospital
Oklahoma
Ascension St. John Broken Arrow
Chickasaw National Medical Center (Ada)
Hillcrest Hospital South (Tulsa)
Oklahoma Heart Hospital South (Oklahoma City)
Oklahoma Surgical Hospital (Tulsa)
St. Francis Hospital Vinita
Oregon
Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center (Medford)
Asante Three Rivers Medical Center (Grants Pass)
CHI Mercy Health Mercy Medical Center (Roseburg)
Kaiser Permanente Sunnyside Medical Center (Clackamas)
McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center (Springfield)
PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center RiverBend (Springfield)
Pennsylvania
AHN Wexford Hospital
Geisinger Bloomsburg Hospital
Geisinger Jersey Shore Hospital
Geisinger Lewistown Hospital
Geisinger St. Luke’s Hospital (Orwigsburg)
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center (Wilkes-Barre)
Independence Health System Westmoreland Hospital (Greensburg)
Lancaster General Hospital
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (Philadelphia)
Punxsutawney Area Hospital
St. Luke’s Hospital-Anderson Campus (Easton)
St. Luke’s Hospital-Miners Campus (Coaldale)
UPMC Bedford (Everett)
UPMC Northwest (Seneca)
WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital
WellSpan Evangelical Community Hospital (Lewisburg)
WellSpan Gettysburg Hospital
WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital (Lebanon)
South Carolina
Beaufort Memorial Hospital
Prisma Health Baptist (Columbia)
Self Regional Medical Center (Greenwood)
South Dakota
Avera Health Hospital (Sioux Falls)
Avera St. Luke’s Hospital (Aberdeen)
Brookings Hospital
Prairie Lakes Healthcare System (Watertown)
Sanford Aberdeen Medical Center
Tennessee
CommonSpirit Memorial Hospital Chattanooga
Williamson Medical Center (Franklin)
Texas
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center-Irving
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center-Temple
Doctors Hospital of Laredo
Harlingen Medical Center
Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital
Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital
Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital
Houston Methodist West Hospital
Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital
JPS Health Network (Fort Worth)
Knapp Medical Center (Weslaco)
North Texas Medical Center (Gainesville)
Rio Grande Regional Hospital (McAllen)
South Texas Health System Edinburg
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth
Utah
Central Valley Medical Center (Nephi)
CommonSpirit Holy Cross Hospital-Davis (Layton)
Intermountain Health LDS Hospital (Salt Lake City)
Intermountain Health Logan Regional Hospital
Intermountain Health McKay-Dee Hospital (Ogden)
Intermountain Health Riverton Hospital
Intermountain Health Utah Valley Hospital (Provo)
Intermountain Medical Center (Murray)
Lone Peak Hospital (Draper)
University of Utah Hospital (Salt Lake City)
Virginia
Augusta Health (Fishersville)
Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospital (Rocky Mount)
Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital
Inova Alexandria Hospital
Inova Loudoun Hospital (Leesburg)
Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital (Charlottesville)
Sentara Obici Hospital (Suffolk)
Sentara RMH Medical Center (Harrisonburg)
Washington
Confluence Health Hospital (Wenatchee)
MultiCare Valley Hospital (Spokane Valley)
PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center (Longview)
Pullman Regional Hospital
St. Clare Hospital in Lakewood
Virginia Mason Medical Center (Seattle)
West Virginia
United Hospital Center (Bridgeport)
Wisconsin
Ascension NE Wisconsin-St. Elizabeth Hospital (Appleton)
Ascension NE Wisconsin-St. Joseph (Milwaukee)
Aspirus Wausau Hospital
Aurora Medical Center-Grafton
Aurora Medical Center-Sheboygan County
Aurora Medical Center-Summit
Aurora Medical Center-Washington County (Hartford)
Bellin Memorial Hospital (Green Bay)
Beloit Health System
HSHS St. Vincent Hospital (Green Bay)
Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire
Mayo Clinic Health System in La Crosse
ProHealth Oconomowoc Memorial Hospital
SSM Health St. Clare Hospital-Baraboo
SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital-Madison
Sauk Prairie Hospital (Prairie du Sac)
ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Appleton
ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Neenah
Tomah Health
Wyoming
St. John’s Health (Jackson)
