Rankings and Ratings

Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center (Houston). Houston is a town of many hospitals, but the sizable Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center continues to make a name for itself.   Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center is located in…

Lehigh Valley Hospital (Allentown, Pa.). Situated approximately 95 miles outside New York City, Lehigh Valley Hospital is the flagship of Lehigh Valley Health Network, with roots dating back to 1899.  Lehigh Valley Hospital is comprised of two campuses in Allentown:…

Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center (Portland, Ore.). In 1875, Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center was founded as Good Samaritan Hospital by the Rev. B. Wistar Morris, who came from Philadelphia to become the Episcopal Bishop of Oregon. He believed that…

Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak (Mich.). What started as a 238-bed community hospital in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak in 1955 has grown into the three-hospital Beaumont Health System. The system is named after William Beaumont, MD, a famous Michigan…

Baptist Memorial Hospital – Memphis (Tenn.). Baptist Memorial Hospital – Memphis opened to the public in 1979, and during the course of the past 35 years, the hospital has become of the highest-volume facilities in Tennessee with roughly 27,000 discharges…

UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s Hospital (Cedar Rapids, Iowa). In 1884, Cedar Rapids was one of the fastest-growing cities in Iowa, but it lacked a hospital. That May, community members laid down the cornerstone of St. Luke’s Hospital, which today…

UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco). In 1906, a major earthquake struck San Francisco and the rest of the northern California coast, resulting in devastating fires. The University of California decided to build a teaching hospital on the Parnassus campus in…

UC San Diego Medical Center. The history of the 392-bed UC San Diego Medical Center traces back to 1966, when the University of California assumed the lease of the former county hospital and began operating the hospital as University Hospital.…

 The University of Kansas Hospital (Kansas City). The Kansas medical scene came to a crescendo in the early 1900s as the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Lawrence was created. Then, in 1906, Simeon Bell, MD, donated the land and…

Stanford Hospital & Clinics (Palo Alto, Calif.). Leland Stanford, a famous politician and railroad tycoon from the 1800s, founded Stanford University in 1885. After adopting the medical school located in San Francisco, Stanford Medicine came into its own in the…