Rankings and Ratings

National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (Bethesda, Md.). The NIH Clinical Center opened its doors to its first patients in 1953.As a research facility, only patients with the precise type or stage of illness under investigation are admitted for treatment,…

Mount Sinai Hospital (New York City). Mount Sinai Hospital is a 1,171-bed general medical, surgical and teaching facility known across the country for excellence in clinical care and patient satisfaction. The Mount Sinai Health System was created from the combination…

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York City). Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is composed of two related institutions: Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases and Sloan Kettering Institute. Memorial Hospital was founded in 1884 as New York Cancer Hospital.…

Medical University of South Carolina (Charleston). The Medical University of South Carolina opened in 1824 as a small private college for the training of physicians. The school has since grown into a state university with a medical center and six colleges…

Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.). Founded in 1889, Mayo Clinic is the first and largest integrated nonprofit medical group practice in the U.S. The Mayo Clinic’s Rochester campus is made up of two hospitals, 794-bed Mayo Clinic Hospital, Methodist Campus and the…

Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston). Founded in 1811, Massachusetts General Hospital is the third oldest general hospital in the U.S. and the first teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. Today, it is considered the No. 1 overall hospital in the nation, according to…

Loyola University Medical Center (Maywood, Ill.). Loyola University Medical Center is a 559-bed academic medical center and teaching hospital firmly rooted in the Jesuit Catholic faith. The hospital belongs to Loyola Medicine, a quaternary-care system with a 61-acre medical center campus in…

Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest (Allentown, Pa.). Lehigh Valley Hospital’s roots date back to 1899, when 13 women raised $5,300 for a plot of land in Allentown to open a hospital for their community. The hospital is the flagship location of…

Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore). The Johns Hopkins Hospital opened on May 7, 1889. The hospital and the university were incorporated and endowed by Johns Hopkins, a wealthy Quaker businessman known as Baltimore’s greatest philanthropist. The organization is one of the first…

John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek (Calif.). John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek was founded in the late 1950s by 50 physicians. After several years of fundraising, the physicians and community members purchased a site upon which to build the hospital.…