Rankings and Ratings

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…

Christiana Care Health System (Newark, Del.). Christiana Care dates back to 1890, and it has since become one of 20 U.S. hospitals with the most patient admissions each year and one of the country’s largest community-based teaching hospitals.  With more…

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles). Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s legacy began with the opening of its predecessor, the 12-bed Kaspare Cohn Hospital in Angeleno Heights in 1902. Now, the hospital is a world-renowned academic medical center and the largest nonprofit hospital…

Carolinas Medical Center (Charlotte, N.C.). As the Charlotte campus of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center is one of five teaching hospitals in the state. The 874-bed hospital is the flagship of Carolinas HealthCare System,…

Baylor University Medical Center (Dallas). Baylor University Medical Center was founded in 1903, when it opened as Texas Baptist Memorial Sanitarium in a 14-room renovated house with 25 beds. Now, the hospital is home to more than 20 specialty centers…

 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. …