21 PA Hospitals In Top 5% Nationwide, Report Says

PENNSYLVANIA — Seven hospitals in Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania, Lancaster General Hospital was one of the medical centers recognized among America’s 50 Best Hospitals. This facility, which is part of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, is one of only four hospitals to be among America's Best for 20+ years.

Lankenau Medical Center, Chester County Hospital, Reading Hospital, and St. Luke's Hospital-Bethlehem Campus were also on the America’s 50 Best Hospitals list, and have been on the overall list for 10 years or more.

Riddle Memorial Hospital and Milton S. Hershey Medical Center were also named in the top 50.

Pennsylvania hospitals ranked in the top 100 are:

• UPMC Harrisburg
• Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
• Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Philadelphia
• Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia
• WellSpan York Hospital

Hospitals in the top 250 are:

• Jefferson Einstein Hospital, Philadelphia
• Jefferson Einstein Montgomery Hospital, East Norriton
• Paoli Hospital
• Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia
• Bryn Mawr Hospital
• Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia
• Wellspan Ephrata Community Hospital
• Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, Allentown
• Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center, Camp Hill

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.