VA’s Best Hospitals For 2025: See Full List

Throughout 2025, several data-based national rankings and safety grades helped Virginia residents navigate the complex landscape of health care, and make decisions about the best places to have a baby, find a specialist or take care of other medical issues.

Here’s a review of how Virginia stacked up in analyses and rankings from various publications, health care watchdog groups and others:

U.S. News & World Report’s respected rankings included looks at the best maternity, children’s, specialty and overall hospitals in Virginia. Read more:

• These Are The Top-Ranked Hospitals In Virginia: U.S. News

• 3 VA Children’s Hospitals Among Nation’s Best: U.S. News Rankings

Newsweek also took a look at Virginia residents’ access to top hospitals. Read more:

• 12 Virginia Hospitals Among Best In The U.S., New Ranking Says

For the first time ever, Forbes released its Top Hospitals List and Rankings for 2026 and named the most favorable hospitals in Virginia. Read more:

• 29 VA Hospitals Among Best In U.S. In New Forbes Ranking
  

The watchdog Leapfrog Group’s twice-a-year safety grades use both data and patient surveys to measure Virginia hospitals’ records on patient safety, infection rates and other patient experiences.

Read more:

• These Are VA’s Safest Hospitals, New Ranking Says
• 34 VA Hospitals Earn 'A' Grade In New Safety Ranking

Healthgrades, which maintains a comprehensive database of ratings and comparisons for physicians, hospitals and health care providers, also released ratings on hospitals in Virginia and others. Read more:

• 8 Virginia Hospitals In Top 5% Nationwide, Report Says
• These Are The 19 Safest Virginia Hospitals, New Report Says