Rankings and Ratings

Baystate Medical Center (Springfield, Mass.). Baystate Medical Center, part of Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health, serves as an academic, research and teaching hospital. The 716-bed facility acts as the western campus of Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. Baystate Medical…

Baylor University Medical Center (Dallas). Baylor University Medical Center was founded in 1903 as the Texas Baptist Memorial Sanitarium. Then, the hospital existed in a 14-room renovated house with 25 beds. Today, the nonprofit teaching hospital encompasses more than 20…

Barnes-Jewish Hospital (St. Louis). Robert Barnes, for whom the hospital was named, arrived in St. Louis in 1830 without a dollar in his pocket. After rising to the president position at a bank, he died in 1892 and bestowed $850,000…

Banner-University Medical Center (Phoenix). Banner-University Medical Center, formerly Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, is a nationally renowned academic medical center. The hospital was founded by Lulu Clifton in 1911. Ms. Clifton, a Methodist Deaconess, traveled to Phoenix to recover from…

Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center (Milwaukee). After operating independently to serve patients on Milwaukee’s South Side, Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center joined together to form St. Luke’s Samaritan Health Care, the forerunner of Aurora Health Care. The 680-bed hospital is…

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…