This Is The Best Hospital In FL, U.S. News Says In New Ranking

AdventHealth Orlando is the top hospital in Florida and among the top 20 in the U.S., according to the new 2025-2026 Best Hospitals ranking released Tuesday by U.S. News and World Report.

For its 36th annual report, U.S. News evaluated more than 4,440 hospitals based on their performance across 30 medical and surgical services.

These hospitals are also among the 504 Best Regional Hospitals across 49 states and 95 metro areas ranked by U.S. News. Hospitals that earned high performance ratings across eight surgery and specialty areas made the cut.

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“For most Americans, health care decisions are made close to home. The Best Regional Hospitals rankings underscore the difference high-performing local medical centers make,” Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor at U.S. News, said in a news release.

“These local hospital rankings, entirely performance-driven, equip individuals and their families, in consultation with their medical providers, to choose the highest quality care available in their own communities,” Harder said.

Other Florida hospitals recognized as the best regional facilities, in addition to AdventHealth Orlando in the No. 1 spot, are:

• No. 2 - Mayo Clinic-Florida, Jacksonville
• No. 3 - UF Health Shands Hospital, Gainesville
• No. 4 - Tampa General Hospital, Tampa
• No. 5 - Orlando Health - Orlando Regional Medical Center, Orlando
• No. 6 - Cleveland Clinic Weston, Weston
• No. 7 - Baptist Health Baptist Hospital, Miami
• No. 8 - Baptist Medical Center, Jacksonville
• No. 9 - Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Sarasota
• No. 10 - Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach
• No. 11 - HCA Florida North Florida Hospital, Gainesville
• No. 12 - Lee Memorial Hospital, Fort Myers
• No. 12 - University of Miami Hospital and Clinics - UHealth Tower, Miami
• No. 14 - AdventHealth Daytona Beach, Daytona Beach
• No. 14 - Morton Plant Hospital, Clearwater
• No. 16 - AdventHealth Tampa, Tampa
• No. 16 - NCH Baker Hospital, Naples
• No. 18 - Gulf Coast Medical Center, Fort Myers
• No. 18 - Memorial Hospital West, Pembroke Pines
• No. 18 - St. Joseph’s Hospital, Tampa
• No. 21 - Ascension St. Vincent’s Riverside Hospital, Jacksonville
• No. 21 - Cleveland Clinic Martin Health, Stuart
• No. 21 - Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare, Tallahassee
• No. 24 - Health First Holmes Regional Medical Center, Melbourne
• No. 25 - Brandon Regional Hospital, Brandon
• No. 25 - HCA Florida Oak Hill Hospital, Brooksville
• No. 25 - HCA Florida Ocala Hospital, Ocala
• No. 28 - AdventHealth Waterman, Tavares
• No. 28 - Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital, Vero Beach
• No. 28 - HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, Miami
• No. 31 - AdventHealth Fish Memorial, Orange City
• No. 31 - Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola Hospital, Pensacola
• No. 31 - Baptist Hospital, Pensacola
• No. 31 - Memorial Regional Hospital, Hollywood
• No. 35 - AdventHealth Ocala, Ocala
• No. 35 - AdventHealth Zephyrhills, Zephyrhills
• No. 37 - AdventHealth Palm Coast, Palm Coast
• No. 37 - Baptist Health South Miami Hospital, South Miami
• No. 37 - HCA Florida Aventura Hospital, Aventura

The report also named 20 hospitals across 13 states to its Honor Roll, which represents the best of the best hospitals. Listed in alphabetical order, they are:

• AdventHealth, Orlando, Florida
• Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
• Cleveland Clinic
• Hackensack University Medical Center at Hackensack Meridian Health, Hackensack, New Jersey
• Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia
• Houston Methodist Hospital
• Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
• Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
• Mayo Clinic-Arizona, Phoenix
• Mayo Clinic-Rochester, Minnesota
• Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
• New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell
• Northwestern Medicine-Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
• NYU Langone Hospitals, New York
• Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
• Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Palo Alto, California
• UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
• UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
• University of Michigan Health-Ann Arbor

U.S. News evaluated 4,400 hospitals and ranked them based on their performance on objective measures such as risk-adjusted mortality rates, preventable complications and level of nursing care. The Best Hospitals Specialty rankings methodology and Procedures & Conditions ratings methodology measure patient outcomes using data from over 800 million records of patient care.

This year, among other methodology refinements, U.S. News added ratings in two new cohorts, Heart Arrhythmia and Pacemaker Implantation, to the existing Procedures & Conditions ratings, for a new total of 22 ratings.

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