Rankings and Ratings

 Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center. Founded in 1888 with just 12 beds, Hackensack University Medical Center was the first hospital in New Jersey’s Bergen County. Now, the facility is the largest provider of inpatient and outpatient services in the state. …

 Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Founded in 1901, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is now the largest pediatric hospital in Southern California and performs more complex procedures than any other hospital in the area.  Children’s Hospital Los Angeles was ranked fifth in the…

Children’s Hospital Colorado (Aurora). Children’s Hospital Colorado was incorporated in 1908, but its history dates back to 1897 in tents — where a staff of six treated children under the age of five in the fresh air and sunshine, back…

Carle Foundation Hospital (Urbana, Ill.). Thanks to Margaret Burt Carle Morris’ $40,000 gift to the City of Urbana, Ill., Carle Foundation Hospital got its start in 1918. Today, the hospital is part of an integrated healthcare network owned by the…

Boston Children’s Hospital. Boston Children’s Hospital originally opened in 1869 as a 20-bed facility in Boston’s South End. Now, it is one of the largest pediatric medical centers in the United States and home to the world’s largest research enterprise…

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston). At the turn of the 20th century, Boston established two hospitals that would eventually become the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center that is known today. Methodist deaconesses founded Deaconess Hospital in 1896, and the…

Advocate Lutheran General Hospital (Park Ridge, Ill.). Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, a 638-bed nonprofit organization, is the sixth largest hospital in the Chicagoland area and a member of Advocate Health Care, Illinois’ largest health system.  Advocate Lutheran General is a…

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (Columbus). OSU’s Wexner Medical Center’s origin dates back to 1834, to the founding of the Willoughby (Ohio) Medical Center of Lake Erie. After moving to Columbus in 1846 and several expansions and name…

The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore). The Johns Hopkins Hospital opened in 1889, four years before the university’s medical school. It was established at the bequest of its namesake, who was a successful Baltimore merchant. The hospital is the birthplace of…

The Christ Hospital (Cincinnati). The Christ Hospital can trace its roots back to 1889. That’s when Isabella Thoburn, a teacher, nurse, and missionary, came to Cincinnati and opened Christ’s Hospital, a 10-bed facility. Now part of The Christ Hospital Health…