5 FL Hospitals In Top 1% Nationwide, Report Says

FLORIDA — Five hospitals in Florida are ranked among the top 1 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 Florida, medical centers named to America’s 50 Best Hospitals are:

• Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, 12 years on the list
• Adventhealth Orlando, Orlando, eight years on the list
• Cape Coral Hospital, Cape Coral, eight years on the list
• Downtown Baker Hospital, Naples, eight years on the list
• Naples Community Hospital, Naples, eight years on the list

Aside from the aforementioned three medical centers, the following hospitals ranked in the top 100:

• Lee Memorial Hospital, No. 52, Fort Myers, eight years on the list
• Gulf Coast Medical Center, No. 63, Fort Myers, seven years on the list
• HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, No. 64, Miami, seven years on the list
• HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital, No. 76, Orange Park, six years on the list
• Mount Sinai Medical Center, No. 81, Miami Beach, six years on the list
• HCA Florida Aventura Hospital, No. 94, Aventura, five years on the list

Hospitals in the top 250 are HCA Florida Largo Hospital in Largo, HCA Florida Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, HCA Florida North Florida Hospital in Gainesville, HCA Florida Ocala Hospital in Ocala, HCA Florida Trinity Hospital in Trinity, Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Adventhealth Waterman in Tavares, Adventhealth Wesley Chapel in Wesley Chapel, HCA Florida JFK Hospital in Atlantis, HCA Florida Northside Hospital in St. Petersburg, HCA Florida Northwest Hospital in Margate and HCA Florida Oak Hill Hospital in Brooksville.

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.

Clarification: This story has been updated to reflect that there are five Florida hospitals in the top 50 of Healthgrade’s 2025 rankings.