These Are The Top-Ranked Hospitals In IL: U.S. News

ILLINOIS — Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago is the top hospital in Illinois, 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.

Rush University Medical Center in Chicago also made U.S. News and World Report's Honor Roll for hospitals.

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

“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 Illinois hospitals recognized as the best regional facilities are:

• Northwestern Medicine-Northwestern Memorial Hospital
• Rush University Medical Center
• University of Chicago Medical Center
• Advocate Christ Medical Center
• Endeavor Health NorthShore Hospitals
• Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
• Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital
• Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital
• Endeavor Health Edward Hospital
• Northwestern Medicine-McHenry, Huntley, Woodstock Hospitals
• Carle Foundation Hospital
• Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital
• Endeavor Health Elmhurst Hospital
• OSF Healthcare St. Francis Medical Center
• Loyola University Medical Center
• Ascension Alexian Brothers Hospital
• Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital
• Advocate Trinity Hospital
• Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital
• Advocate Condell Medical Center
• Springfield Memorial Hospital
• Silver Cross Hospital
• UChicago Medicine AdventHealth La Grange

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.