Rankings and Ratings

University of Michigan Medical Center (Ann Arbor). The University of Michigan board of regents established a three-member medical department in 1848, which is today known as the University of Michigan Medical School. This eventually led the opening of U-M’s academic…

Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hospital. Yale-New Haven Hospital is a 1,541-bed academic medical center and flagship of Yale New Haven Health System. The hospital dates back to 1826, when it opened as the 13-bed General Hospital Society of Connecticut, the first…

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center (Winston-Salem, N.C.). In 1941, the Wake Forest School of Medicine joined with North Carolina Baptist Hospital to create what today is known as Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. This 885-bed teaching hospital includes the region’s…

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The mission of University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is straightforward: eliminate cancer in Texas, the nation and the world. The hospital was created in 1941 and accepted its first patient in…

University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center. University of Rochester Medical Center was founded in 1921. George Eastman, founder of the Eastman Kodak Company, was the hospital’s first benefactor. In the early 1900s, Eastman agreed to fund a medical school with…

University of North Carolina Hospitals (Chapel Hill, N.C.). With 805 patient beds, the public UNC Hospitals is the anchor of UNC Health Care and dates back to 1952, when its N.C. Memorial Hospital opened its doors to patients. The parent…

Florida Hospital Orlando. Florida Hospital Orlando’s history dates back more than 100 years when it was a small, two-story farmhouse turned into a medical facility. Now, it is part of Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based Adventist Health System and the more than 2,000-bed…

Christiana Care Health System (Wilmington, Del.). Christiana Care is a major system with two main hospital campuses. Its flagship hospital, Christiana Hospital in Newark, is the No. 1 hospital in the state, according to U.S. News & World Report. Christiana Hospital…

North Shore University Hospital (Manhasset, N.Y.). The home of the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine and one of the Katz Women’s Hospitals, North Shore University Hospital is a major component of the North Shore-LIJ Health System. The 806-bed hospital…

Emory University Hospital (Atlanta). The history of Emory University Hospital dates back to 1904, when its predecessor, Wesley Memorial Hospital, was chartered with 50 beds. The hospital was housed in a downtown Atlanta mansion that had been spared from destruction during…