6 Maryland Hospitals In Top 5% Nationwide, Report Says

MARYLAND — One Maryland hospital is ranked among the top 1 percent of clinical care facilities in the country, according to a new report published Tuesday. Another five hospitals landed among the top 5 percent nationally.

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.

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore is the state's only hospital in the top 50. It's Hopkins Bayview's first time in the top 50, and it's the facility's eighth straight year in the top 250.

Maryland hospitals among the top 250 nationwide are:

• University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie (Third straight year in top 250)
• The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore (Second straight year in top 250)
• Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center in Columbia (First straight year in top 250)
• MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center in Rosedale (First straight year in top 250)
• Medstar Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore (First straight year in top 250)

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.