26 PA Hospitals Among Best In The World, New Ranking Says

PENNSYLVANIA — Twenty-six hospitals in Pennsylvania are among the best in the world, according to a new analysis that ranks the top hospitals in 30 countries.

The 2025 World’s Best Hospitals ranking from Newsweek and its data partner Statista narrows down hundreds of thousands of hospitals worldwide to the 250 best.

Pennsylvania hospitals in the 2025 ranking are:

• No. 15 — Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
• No. 44 — Jefferson Health - Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
• No. 56 — Penn State Health - Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
• No. 73 — UPMC Presbyterian & Shadyside
• No. 79 — Penn Medicine Chester County Hospital
• No. 111 — St. Luke's University Hospital - Bethlehem Campus
• No. 116 — Reading Hospital
• No. 131 — Main Line Health - Lankenau Medical Center
• No. 133 — Doylestown Hospital
• No. 139 — Lancaster General Hospital
• No. 180 — Main Line Health - Bryn Mawr Hospital
• No. 187 — Pennsylvania Hospital
• No. 200 — Geisinger Medical Center
• No. 238 — UPMC Harrisburg
• No. 252 — Main Line Health - Paoli Hospital
• No. 256 — WellSpan York Hospital
• No. 268 — Evangelical Community Hospital
• No. 278 — UPMC Horizon
• No. 315 — Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest
• No. 323 — Mount Nittany Medical Center
• No. 324 — Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center
• No. 332 — Temple University Hospital
• No. 336 — Allegheny General Hospital
• No. 397 — Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital
• Special Recognition — Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Pediatrics
• Special Recognition — UPMC Magee - Women's Hospital - Woman's Health

Hospitals were scored based on an online survey of about 85,000 medical experts and publicly available data from post-hospitalization patient surveys on their general satisfaction, Newsweek said.

Hygiene and patient/doctor ratios were also considered, along with a Statista survey on whether hospitals use “Patient Reported Outcome Measures,” which are surveys filled out by patients about their experience.

The top 10 hospitals in the world included four U.S. hospitals:

• No. 1: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
• No. 2: Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
• No. 3: Toronto General - University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
• No. 4: The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
• No. 5: Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
• No. 6: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
• No. 7: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
• No. 8: Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel
• No. 9: Singapore General Hospital (SGH), Singapore
• No. 10: Universitätsspital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

U.S. hospitals in the top 25 worldwide included:

• No. 13: Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles
• No. 17: Stanford Health Care - Stamford Hospital, Stamford, Connecticut
• No. 19: The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City
• No. 21: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston

Along with U.S. hospitals, the ranking includes hospitals from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.