AI answer engines name an academic medical center as the top hospital in 46 of 50 states, according to a 50-state analysis from public relations firm 5W AI Communications.
The report modeled how five AI tools — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews — answer state-level “best hospital” questions — 12 prompts per state spanning general recommendations and six specialties including oncology, cardiology and pediatrics, per a June 17 news release.
Academic health systems anchored the list, which 5W attributed to AI favoring U.S. News & World Report rankings, specialty rankings, peer-reviewed research output and trade-press coverage.
The full state-by-state results:
— Alabama: UAB Hospital (Birmingham)
— Alaska: Providence Alaska (Anchorage)
— Arizona: Mayo Clinic Arizona (Phoenix)
— Arkansas: UAMS Medical Center (Little Rock)
— California: UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco)
— Colorado: UCHealth Anschutz (Aurora)
— Connecticut: Yale New Haven
— Delaware: ChristianaCare (Newark)
— Florida: Cleveland Clinic Florida (Weston)
— Georgia: Emory University Hospital (Atlanta)
— Hawaii: Queen’s Medical Center (Honolulu)
— Idaho: St. Luke’s Boise Medical Center
— Illinois: Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago)
— Indiana: IU Health Methodist (Indianapolis)
— Iowa: University of Iowa Hospitals (Iowa City)
— Kansas: University of Kansas Medical Center (Kansas City)
— Kentucky: UofL Health (Louisville)
— Louisiana: Ochsner Medical Center (New Orleans)
— Maine: Maine Medical Center (Portland)
— Maryland: Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore)
— Massachusetts: Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston)
— Michigan: Michigan Medicine (Ann Arbor)
— Minnesota: Mayo Clinic (Rochester)
— Mississippi: University of Mississippi Medical Center (Jackson)
— Missouri: Barnes-Jewish Hospital (St. Louis)
— Montana: Billings Clinic
— Nebraska: Nebraska Medicine (Omaha)
— Nevada: University Medical Center of Southern Nevada (Las Vegas)
— New Hampshire: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon)
— New Jersey: Hackensack University Medical Center
— New Mexico: UNM Hospital (Albuquerque)
— New York: NYU Langone (New York City)
— North Carolina: Duke University Hospital (Durham)
— North Dakota: Sanford Fargo
— Ohio: Cleveland Clinic
— Oklahoma: OU Health (Oklahoma City)
— Oregon: OHSU Hospital (Portland)
— Pennsylvania: Penn Medicine (Philadelphia)
— Rhode Island: Rhode Island Hospital (Providence)
— South Carolina: MUSC Health (Charleston)
— South Dakota: Sanford USD Medical (Sioux Falls)
— Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville)
— Texas: MD Anderson (Houston)
— Utah: University of Utah Health (Salt Lake City)
— Vermont: UVM Medical Center (Burlington)
— Virginia: UVA Health (Charlottesville)
— Washington: UW Medical Center (Seattle)
— West Virginia: WVU Medicine (Morgantown)
— Wisconsin: UW Health Madison
— Wyoming: Banner Wyoming Medical Center (Casper)
