6 Connecticut Hospitals In Top 5% Nationwide, Report Says

CONNECTICUT — Six hospitals in Connecticut are ranked among the top 5 percent of clinical care facilities in the country, according to a new report Tuesday.

The 2025 America’s Best Hospitals Awards from Healthgrades, an online resource to help people find doctors and hospitals, is a three-tiered ranking of the top 50, 100 and 250 hospitals, which, respectively, represent the top 1 percent, 2 percent and 5 percent of clinical care hospitals nationwide.

In Connecticut, only Norwalk Hospital, ranked at No. 47, was in the top 50 of America’s Best Hospitals, in its 8th consecutive year on the list.

Other hospitals in the top 250 include:

• No. 106: Hartford HealthCare, Hartford, 4th consecutive year
• No. 121: The Hospital of Central Connecticut at New Britain General Campus, New Britain, 4th consecutive year
• No. 175: Danbury Hospital, Danbury, 2nd consecutive year
• No. 209: Yale New Haven Hospital. New Haven, 2nd consecutive year
• No. 214: Backus Hospital, Norwich

Healthgrades said it uses clinically validated methodology that focuses solely on patient outcomes to help consumers choose doctors who practice at hospitals recognized for their quality.

Healthgrades evaluated clinical performance for about 4,500 hospitals across more than 30 common procedures and conditions. The rankings are designed to increase patients’ confidence in choosing a doctor and hospital.

“While there are several factors to consider when looking for a doctor, hospital quality is one that can have a critical impact on a patient’s overall quality of care,” Dr. Brad Bowman, Healthgrades’ chief medical officer and head of data science, said in a news release.

The persistent performance gap between the nation’s highest and lowest performers underscores the importance of ensuring that consumers have access to objective measures of hospital quality, Healthgrades said.

If all hospitals performed similarly to America’s 250 Best Hospitals, 174,081 lives could have been saved, Healthgrades said.