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

Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church is the top hospital in Virginia, according to the new 2025-2026 Best Hospitals ranking 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.

Virginia's other top hospitals are:

2. VCU Medical Center, Richmond

3. Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, Norfolk

4. VHC Health (Virginia Hospital Center), Arlington

5. Winchester Medical Center, Winchester

5. University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville

5. Chippenham and Johnston-Willis Hospitals, Richmond

8. Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, Roanoke

9. Mary Washington Hospital, Fredericksburg

10. Bon Secours St. Mary's Hospital, Richmond

10. Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital, Virginia Beach

12. Henrico Doctors' Hospitals, Richmond

12. Chesapeake Regional Medical Center, Chesapeake

12. Sentara Princess Anne Hospital, Virginia Beach

12. Inova Alexandria Hospital, Alexandria

16. Riverside Regional Medical Center, Newport News

16. Sentara Leigh Hospital, Norfolk

16. Inova Loudoun Hospital, Leesburg

19. Centra Lynchburg General Hospital, Lynchburg

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.