Rankings and Ratings

Inova Fairfax Hospital (Falls Church, Va.). Inova Fairfax Hospital, Inova Health System’s flagship hospital, opened its doors in 1961 with 96 beds. The hospital has since grown to an 833-bed regional medical center and teaching facility — and a birthplace…

Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital (Indianapolis). For more than 100 years, Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital has maintained its position as one of the most well-respected healthcare facilities in the nation.  The 828-bed teaching hospital is partnered with the Indiana University…

Houston Methodist Hospital. Houston Methodist Hospital opened in 1924. Throughout the years, the hospital’s physicians have pioneered various medical procedures, including the world’s first multiple-organ transplant in the 1960s.  The flagship hospital of the Houston Methodist system, Houston Methodist Hospital includes…

Hospital for Special Surgery (New York City). Established in 1863 as a hospital to treat impoverished children with disabilities related to musculoskeletal diseases, the Hospital for Special Surgery is the oldest orthopedic hospital in the nation. Each year, more hip…

Hospital for Special Surgery (New York City). Established in 1863 as a hospital to treat impoverished children with disabilities related to musculoskeletal diseases, the Hospital for Special Surgery is the oldest orthopedic hospital in the nation. Each year, more hip…

Henry Ford Hospital (Detroit). Automobile pioneer Henry Ford blazed yet another trail by financing and leading the building of Henry Ford Hospital, which opened its doors to patients in 1915.  When it opened, Henry Ford Hospital could accommodate 48 patients.…

Geisinger Medical Center (Danville, Pa.). Geisinger Medical Center is named after Abigail Geisinger, the daughter of a wagon-maker who built the hospital in the early 1900s at age 85. Harold Foss, MD, the hospital’s first surgeon and director, helped grow…

NorthShore University HealthSystem Evanston (Ill.) Hospital. NorthShore University HealthSystem Evanston Hospital opened in 1891, and its contributions to clinical research date back the 1920s, including medical breakthroughs in the treatment of scarlet fever and whooping cough. Today the 755-bed hospital is the…

 Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon N.H.). With a more than 120-year history, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is New Hampshire’s only academic medical center — affiliated with the school of medicine at Hanover-based Dartmouth College — and is the only Level I trauma…

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center’s history dates back to 1883, when it opened in a three-bedroom house as the Hospital of the Protestant Episcopal Church, thanks to the insistence of three Cincinnati residents. Now a…