These 26 PA Hospitals Are Among Best In U.S.: New National Ranking

PENNSYLVANIA — Twenty-six hospitals have been ranked as the best in Pennsylvania, in a new report from Newsweek.

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia is the top-ranked Pennsylvania hospital in Newsweek and data partner Statista’s America’s Best In-State Hospitals 2025 ranking, which lists more than 700 medical centers nationwide.

The Pennsylvania hospitals, listed in ranked order, are:

1. Jefferson Health - Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
2. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
3. Penn State Health - Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
4. Geisinger Medical Center
5. UPMC Presbyterian & Shadyside
6. Main Line Health - Lankenau Medical Center
7. Temple University Hospital
8. Lancaster General Hospital
9. Penn Medicine Chester County Hospital
10. Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
11. Lehigh Valley Hospital - Cedar Crest
12. St. Luke's University Hospital - Bethlehem Campus
13. Doylestown Hospital
14. UPMC Harrisburg
15. Reading Hospital
16. Main Line Health - Bryn Mawr Hospital
17. St. Luke's Hospital - Anderson Campus
18. Pennsylvania Hospital
19. Mount Nittany Medical Center
20. Main Line Health - Paoli Hospital
21. WellSpan York Hospital
22. Geisinger Bloomsburg Hospital
23. Evangelical Community Hospital
24. UPMC Horizon
25. UPMC Passavant-McCandless
26. Allegheny General Hospital

The 2025 best in-state hospitals list features 5,000 medical facilities, located throughout all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The hospitals were ranked based on quality metrics from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and national surveys, including:

• The American Hospital Association’s Annual Survey of Hospitals Database, an online nationwide survey among medical professionals;
• Results from Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems patient-experience surveys; and
• Voluntary implementation surveys on PROMs (patient-reported outcome measures).
• Recommendations from doctors, hospital administrators, and other medical experts

The hospitals were evaluated based on a scoring model with four components: Hospital quality metrics score (45 percent), hospital recommendations from peers (36.5 percent), patient experience score (15 percent) and a PROMs implementation score (3.5 percent).

Click here to see the full ranking.