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

ROCHESTER, MN — The Mayo Clinic in Rochester has been named the best hospital in Minnesota for 2025-2026, according to the latest rankings from U.S. News & World Report. The 2025-2026 Best Hospitals rankings, released Tuesday, evaluate more than 4,400 hospitals nationwide based on their performance across 30 medical and surgical services.

Mayo Clinic is not only the top-ranked hospital in Minnesota but also one of just 20 hospitals to make the national Honor Roll. It is nationally ranked in 13 adult specialties and 10 pediatric specialties, rated high performing in two additional specialties and 22 procedures and conditions, and received a patient experience score of 4 out of 5.

Here are the full Minnesota hospital rankings for 2025–26:

1. Mayo Clinic – Rochester
Nationally ranked in 13 adult specialties and 10 children's specialties
High performing in 2 specialties and 22 procedures/conditions
Patient Experience: 4 out of 5

2. CentraCare – St. Cloud Hospital
High performing in 4 specialties and 19 procedures/conditions
Patient Experience: 4 out of 5

T-3. M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center – Minneapolis
Nationally ranked in 2 adult specialties and 3 children's specialties
High performing in 5 specialties and 13 procedures/conditions
Patient Experience: 3 out of 5

T-3. Allina Health Abbott Northwestern Hospital – Minneapolis
High performing in 2 specialties and 17 procedures/conditions
Patient Experience: 3 out of 5

5. Allina Health Mercy Hospital – Coon Rapids
High performing in 18 procedures/conditions
Patient Experience: 3 out of 5

6. M Health Fairview Southdale Hospital – Edina
High performing in 16 procedures/conditions
Patient Experience: 3 out of 5

7. Allina Health United Hospital – St. Paul
High performing in 15 procedures/conditions
Patient Experience: 3 out of 5

8. Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital – St. Louis Park
High performing in 13 procedures/conditions
Patient Experience: 4 out of 5

9. Regions Hospital – St. Paul
High performing in 12 procedures/conditions
Patient Experience: 3 out of 5

10. Essentia Health – St. Mary's Medical Center – Duluth
High performing in 8 procedures/conditions
Patient Experience: 4 out of 5

T-11. M Health Fairview St. John's Hospital – Maplewood
High performing in 8 procedures/conditions
Patient Experience: 3 out of 5

T-11. North Memorial Health Hospital – Robbinsdale
High performing in 8 procedures/conditions
Patient Experience: 3 out of 5

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.

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.