14 Pennsylvania Hospitals Ranked Among America's Best In 2020

PENNSYLVANIA — The health care information company Healthgrades has released its latest rankings of the best hospitals in the United States. In Pennsylvania, 14 hospitals were included on the list.

According to Healthgrades, patients treated in hospitals on its list of the 250 best have a 26.6 percent lower chance of dying than if they were treated in hospitals that weren’t named to the rankings.

Healthgrades evaluated hospital performance through 32 procedures and conditions. To be eligible for the list, a hospital must have successful evaluations in at least 21 of the procedures and conditions.

The procedures and conditions evaluated by Healthgrades included treatment of heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, respiratory failure, sepsis and stroke.

After identifying eligible hospitals, Healthgrades used a series of steps to compile the list of the top 250 hospitals in the nation. You can read the full methodology for the rankings here.

Here are the Pennsylvania hospitals ranked among the best in the nation.

The rankings are divided among the top 50, the top 100, and the top 250. The hospitals are organized alphabetically and are not ranked in any particular order.

Top 50:

• Chester County Hospital, West Chester
• Lancaster General Hospital, Lancaster
• Lankenau Medical Center, Wynnewood

Top 100:

• Reading Hospital, Reading
• St. Luke's Hospital, Bethlehem and Allentown campuses

Top 250:

• Chambersburg Hospital, Chambersburg
• Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
• Jeanes Hospital, Philadelphia
• Jefferson Torresdale Hospital, Philadelphia
• Lehigh Valley Hospital - Cedar Crest, Allentown
• Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey
• Riddle Memorial Hospital, Media
• Saint Luke's Hospital - Anderson, Easton
• UMPC - Harrisburg, Harrisburg

Healthgrades’ mission is to “help patients find and connect with the right doctor or hospital,” according to its website. The organization says it collects its data from a variety of sources including the National Provider Registry, which is a government directory of all active health care providers in the United States.

Additionally, Healthgrades pulls information from patient surveys, data from government sources and data that comes directly from providers or practices.

“Sustaining a high level of care is challenging and requires a hospital-wide commitment and a ‘patient-first’ culture. We applaud these elite hospitals on being recognized as the best in the nation,” said Brad Bowman, the chief medical officer at Healthgrades, in a news release. “With increasing awareness on the importance of hospital quality, this information is a vital resource for consumers when it comes to selecting a hospital for their specific care needs.”

The rankings are different than the biannual hospital safety grades released by the Leapfrog Group. That organization releases fall and spring safety grades, which are established by a panel of experts who use a specific methodology to develop a scoring system.

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In the Leapfrog fall 2019 ratings, Chester County Hospital and Lancaster General hospital — ranked in the top 50 by Healthgrades — received an A. However, Lankenau Medical Center received a C from Leapfrog this fall and last spring. The facility received an A grade from Leapfrog in 2016, but its score declined to a B and further decreased to a C most recently.

You can see the most recent Leapfrog scores here.

You can see the full Healthgrades ranking here.