Rankings and Ratings

Emory University Hospital (Atlanta). Emory University Hospital is affiliated with the city’s first medical school, which was founded in the decade following the Civil War. The hospital, which was established in March 1904, is now a mainstay in the Atlanta…

Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hospital. Yale-New Haven Hospital, the 1,541-bed teaching hospital for Yale School of Medicine, dates back to 1826. As the first hospital in Connecticut, Yale-New Haven has played a distinct role in American history.  For instance, Yale physicist…

Woman’s Hospital (Baton Rouge, La.). In the 1950s, 19 physicians in Louisiana wanted to build a specialty hospital that catered specifically to the needs of women and newborns. By 1968, those physicians turned that goal into a reality, opening the…

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center (Winston-Salem, N.C.). In 1941, the Wake Forest School of Medicine joined with North Carolina Baptist Hospital, creating what today is now known as Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, one of the more progressive academic medicine…

Virginia Mason Hospital (Seattle). Virginia Mason comes from humble beginnings. It was established in 1920 as an 80-bed hospital with six physician offices, named after the founders’ daughters. Today, the 336-bed hospital employs more than 445 physicians and is an…

Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center (Richmond, Va.). Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center has a rich place in American history, as it was affiliated with the only Southern medical school to graduate students during the Civil War. It continues to further…

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, Tenn.). Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been around for almost 140 years, and no hospital in Tennessee is more highly awarded or recognized than VUMC.  VUMC includes 626-bed Vanderbilt University Hospital, 271-bed Monroe Carell Jr.…

UT Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas). The history of UT Southwestern Medical Center began in 1939, when Dallas clinical leaders and citizens organized the Southwestern Medical Foundation to promote medical education in the Dallas area. The Southwestern Medical College officially formed as…

UPMC Presbyterian (Pittsburgh). In 1893, Louise Lyle, the wife of a Presbyterian minister, founded UPMC Presbyterian, which was known as Presbyterian Hospital of Pittsburgh at the time. More than 120 years later, UPMC has become a national and global healthcare…

University of Washington Medical Center (Seattle). In 1959, University of Washington Medical Center opened as University Hospital, one of the country’s smallest teaching hospitals at the time. However, UW Medical Center now sits as the flagship of UW Medicine, one of…