These Are The Top-Ranked Hospitals In PA, U.S. News Says In New Ranking

PENNSYLVANIA — Philadelphia's Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian is the top hospital in Pennsylvania, according to the new 2025-2026 Best Hospitalsranking released Tuesday by U.S. News and World Report.

For its 36th annual report, U.S. News evaluated more than 4,440 hospitals based on their performance across 30 medical and surgical services.

Pennsylvania's other top hospitals are:

2. UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside

3. Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest-Jefferson Health

3. Penn Medicine Lancaster General Hospital

3. Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals-Jefferson Health

6. Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

7. UPMC Harrisburg

8. Geisinger Medical Center

8. St. Luke's University Hospital-Bethlehem Campus

10. Reading Hospital

11. Pennsylvania Hospital

11. Temple University Hospital

13. Main Line Health Lankenau Medical Center

14. WellSpan York Hospital

15. AHN Allegheny General Hospital

16. Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center

17. UPMC Hamot

17. Jefferson Abington Hospital-Jefferson Health

17. Main Line Health Paoli Hospital

20. Mount Nittany Medical Center

20. UPMC Passavant

22. Main Line Health Bryn Mawr Hospital

22. Penn Medicine Chester County Hospital

24. Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital

24. Doylestown Hospital

24. AHN Forbes Hospital

27. St. Clair Hospital

28. Independence Health System Westmoreland Hospital

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.