Rankings and Ratings

Aspirus Wausau (Wis.) Hospital. Aspirus Wausau Hospital is a Magnet-accredited 325-bed facility staffed with 350 physicians in 35 specialties. It is the flagship hospital of the Aspirus system, which serves communities throughout 14 counties in northern and central Wisconsin, as…

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, known until 2012 as Children’s Memorial Hospital, was founded by Julia Foster Porter in 1882 after her 13-year-old son died of acute…

Advocate Christ Medical Center (Oak Lawn, Ill.). The nonprofit, 694-bed teaching institution provides emergency care for nearly 100,000 patients per year and has one of the busiest Level I trauma centers in Illinois. Advocate Christ Medical Center serves as a…

Abbott Northwestern Hospital (Minneapolis). As the largest hospital in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Abbott Northwestern Hospital — part of Minneapolis-based Allina Health — serves more than 200,000 patients and families from across the Upper Midwest each…

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Established in 1885, CHOP is the nation’s first children’s hospital. Inspired by the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London, Francis West Lewis, MD, convinced two of his physician friends to join him in…

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. CHLA is a 365-bed nonprofit teaching hospital affiliated with University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine. Founded in 1901 in a small two-bedroom house, CHLA admitted just 14 children in its first year. By 1905,…

Children’s Hospital Colorado (Aurora). The first children’s hospitals in Colorado were summer tent hospitals for babies. At the time, the Denver mountain air was extolled as a cure for many diseases, so it made sense to treat children in canvas…

CHI St. Vincent Infirmary (Little Rock, Ark.). CHI St. Vincent Infirmary is a byproduct of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic — except that yellow fever never hit Little Rock that year. The wealthy Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hager vowed to…

Central DuPage Hospital (Winfield, Ill.). The Central DuPage Hospital Association, established in 1958, set out to restore a sanitarium in Winfield, Ill., to bring healthcare services closer to home. After the renovation, the sanitarium was named the Central DuPage Hospital,…

Cedars-Sinai (Los Angeles). Businessman Kaspare Cohn founded Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in 1902 in a two-story Victorian home. The 12-bed operation grew into the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital and in 1961 merged with Mount Sinai Hospital, which got its start as a…