2 U.S. Hospitals Top 2025 World's Best Hospitals Ranking

American hospitals are being recognized as some of the best in the world, according to the recently released World's Best Hospitals 2025, produced by Newsweek, in partnership with global data platform Statista. The list includes over 2,400 hospitals across 30 countries. While each country has its own list created from its unique methodology, Newsweek's ranking also features a Global Top 250 list that compiles the top hospitals from all 30 countries. The Mayo Clinic in Minnesota and the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio were identified as the top two hospitals in the world, with Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland and Massachusetts General also included in the global Top 10.

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Hospitals are scored based on peer recommendations from a survey of more than 85,000 medical experts, patient experience data, hospital quality metrics and Statista's Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROM) survey, which assesses how hospitals implement patient feedback on their quality of care. Hospitals are assessed based on factors like patient reviews, friendliness of staff, accreditation and even the quality of cafeteria food. "We have a long-term plan that we want to follow the trends that are going on in healthcare, not only nationally, but also internationally," Statista's Lukas Kwietniewski told Newsweek's Health Care Editor Alexis Kayser in an interview in February. "There is a shift towards patient-centered care. It has been ongoing now for at least a decade and that is also what leading hospitals are more and more aspiring to deliver – to have that patient centricity."

The United States has the most hospitals ranked of any country, with 430. The Top 10 hospitals in the U.S. are:

1. Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota
2. Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio
3. The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland
4. Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts
5. Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California
6. Stanford Health Care – Stanford Hospital in Stanford, California
7. The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, New York
8. Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts
9. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California
10. Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois

This infographic shows the number of hospitals each state has on the World's Best Hospitals 2025 ranking, highlighting the Top 5 overall in the U.S. California had 41 hospitals represented on the U.S. list, the most of any state. Texas has 29, followed by Pennsylvania with 26, Illinois with 21 and Ohio and Florida with 20 each. These states' top hospitals were connected to a major university or part of a large hospital system. Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in California, Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Illinois and Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Pennsylvania are the top hospitals in their respective states. Cleveland Clinic, the second-best hospital in the world, is the top facility in Ohio, and the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville is Florida's best hospital. Nevada, Mississippi and Vermont are the only states without representation on the World's Best Hospitals list because they were not assessed for this ranking.

Each country's ranking on the World's Best Hospitals 2025 was compiled based on publicly available data related to quality of care measures, patient feedback and staffing data to compare hospitals nationally. The depth and availability of these metrics vary greatly between countries, meaning each country has its own unique methodology. In the U.S., there are currently 6,120 hospitals, according to the American Hospital Association. The majority of those are classified as non-federal, short-term general hospitals, or community hospitals. These include both non-profit, for-profit and state and local government community hospitals. According to Statista, the hospital quality metrics for the U.S. ranking came from the Medicare "Hospital Compare" dataset published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The measures to rate hospital performance, according to CMS, include mortality, safety of care, readmission, patient experience and timely and effective care. Patient satisfaction score is based on Medicare's Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey from October 2024. For the first time in the World's Best Hospitals ranking, CMS data on Health Equity and Patient Reported Outcomes were factored into the analysis.