In connection with the release of the World's Best Hospitals 2024, a ranking compiled by Newsweek and Statista, we have listed the 12 best U.S. hospitals. While diverse in their health care specialties, these medical institutions share a commitment to achieving excellence regarding patient treatments and results.
All of these facilities are ranked within the top 50 globally, giving the U.S. the most top-50 hospitals of any country featured on the list. These hospitals span the country coast to coast, representing a wide swath of U.S. regions. Two cities listed below, Boston and Los Angeles, each have two entries on the list, while every other location is listed once.
1. Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
A household name and a revered national and international health care provider, the Mayo Clinic, headquartered in Rochester, Minnesota, is at the forefront of comprehensive patient-centered care. Its advanced research and medical education have led to numerous groundbreaking medical discoveries, such as treatments for thyroid disease, regulation of insulin dosages and identification of cortisone. Among its various medical specialties, the clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine focuses on cancer and rare and undiagnosed disorders, utilizing its cutting-edge technologies and expert physicians to detect and treat a wide range of conditions.
2. Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland
More than a century old, Cleveland Clinic is a global health care leader whose four core values are represented in its logo: clinic, hospital, research and education, along with its four founders. Known for its rich history in medical innovations and surgical breakthroughs, the institution was the first to discover serotonin, successfully conduct a larynx transplant and develop a vaccine to treat triple-negative breast cancer. The multispecialty academic medical clinic is recognized as the nation's leading cardiovascular care center, drawing over 800,000 patients worldwide. Over the decades, the center conducted the first coronary artery bypass surgery and cardiac catheterization, and its specialists performed over 2,000 heart transplants.
3. The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Nestled in Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Hospital is a leading teaching hospital that combines education, care and research. It has led the way in neurological innovation for over a century, and in the early 1900s, Dr. Harvey Cushing, known as the "father of neurosurgery," performed the first successful operations for brain tumors. Today, the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery conducts more than 4,000 brain, tumor, vascular and peripheral nerve operations annually. The hospital is also known for its achievements in cardiac surgery, most notably including the historic "blue baby" operation in 1944, which successfully implanted a shunt to increase blood flow to an infant with a fatal heart defect.
4. Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston
As the nation's third-oldest hospital spanning two centuries, Massachusetts General Hospital is home to the largest hospital-based research program in the country. Its affiliated Mass General Research Institute features more than 2,000 principal investigators overseeing more than 1,200 clinical trials across 30 departments, with annual research operations surpassing $1 billion. With a storied history that includes milestones such as the first successful public administration of anesthesia and limb reattachment, MGH, the teaching hospital of Harvard University, is now a pioneer of gene sequencing, cancer treatments and stroke research and care.
5. UCLA Health-Ronald Reagan Medical Center
Los Angeles
A leader in organ transplantation, UCLA Health's Ronald Reagan Medical Center is renowned for its integration of patient care with academic research to ensure patients benefit from the latest scientific discoveries and treatments. The center, which reopened in 2008, is a 10-story structure with nearly 450 beds. Each floor is designated for a medical specialty, and in addition to traditional specialties, the GONDA Diagnostic, Observation and Treatment Unit provides short-stay units for patients. The hospital has conducted over 6,000 liver transplants and, as of 2018, performs nearly 360 kidney transplants annually.
6. Stanford Hospital
Stanford, California
An academic medical center in the heart of the nation's technology capital, Silicon Valley, the Stanford Hospital opened a new 824,000 square foot facility in 2019, combining cutting-edge technologies with medical research to provide specialized care. With more than 2,000 physicians on staff to help spearhead medical studies, the center has pioneered transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), a less invasive alternative to open-heart surgery for treating aortic valve disease. The hospital has one of the nation's leading cancer research teams on hand to leverage medical technology such as targeted biopsies that combine MRI and ultrasound imaging to identify, diagnose and treat cancer.
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7. Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston
Brigham and Women's Hospital, the second-largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, leads across medical specialties, particularly in human disease research, with over 1,000 physician-investigators and biomedical scientists supported by more than $640 million in funding. Home to one of the country's most prominent and historic cardiac centers—known for conducting the world's first successful heart valve surgery in 1923—the center annually treats more than 800 patients. Partnering with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, BWH boasts one of the nation's highest volumes of CAR T-cell therapy, a form of immunotherapy.
8. The Mount Sinai Hospital
New York City
Founded in 1852 as the Jews' Hospital, it aimed primarily to serve Jewish immigrants facing discrimination in health care. By 1866, the nonprofit hospital had renounced its sectarian affiliation and adopted its current name. Over more than 170 years, the hospital has achieved significant medical milestones and notable gene discoveries, including breakthroughs related to Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, dwarfism, prostate cancer and autism. Its geriatrics and palliative medicine department is nationally recognized for its innovative, team-based approach that engages physicians, nurses, social workers and specialists. The center's medical school, Icahn School of Medicine, is among a few schools that require all medical students to complete a monthlong rotation in geriatric medicine.
9. Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Chicago
Established in 1972 as a 1,000-bed facility, Northwestern Memorial Hospital ranks among the nation's premiere care centers. Affiliated with the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center and one of only 51 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers, it treats more than 15,000 new cancer patients annually and offers access to nearly 300 clinical cancer trials. In addition, as the first hospital in Illinois to perform an islet cell transplant to treat diabetes, it now has one of the state's most active islet cell transplant programs.
10. University of Michigan Hospital
Ann Arbor, Michigan
A celebrated health care giant, the University of Michigan Hospital boasts the 550-bed University of Michigan Hospital and is the teaching hospital affiliated with Michigan Medicine, which employs over 25,000 people. Its renowned ophthalmology department has repeatedly achieved medical milestones, including successfully conducting the first human trial of retinal pigment epithelium cells transplanted from human donor stem cells to treat dry age-related macular degeneration. Among other specialties, the hospital is known for its urology, rheumatology, cancer, and ear, nose and throat departments.
11. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles
Surpassing all other U.S. medical centers, The Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai is the highest-volume cardiothoracic transplant center nationwide, having conducted 706 heart and dual heart/lung transplants in the past six years. A leader in biomedical research and technology, Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is one of the nation's largest nonprofit academic medical centers with over 14,000 employees and 2,000 physicians, and 886 hospital beds. Its medical achievements range from using cardiac stem cells to repair hearts to developing new drug types to precisely target cancer. Committed to research, Cedars-Sinai conducts nearly 600 clinical trials and over 2,000 research projects across its departments.
12. UCSF Medical Center
San Francisco
Acclaimed as the No. 1 NIH-funded neurosurgery program in the nation, University of California San Francisco Medical Center provides highly specialized care. Treating across conditions—including brain tumors, epilepsy and spinal disorders—the neurosurgery clinic offers minimally invasive treatments that leverage cutting-edge technologies as well as clinical trials with experts across neurology, neuropathology and neurogenetics. In addition, the facility is the first U.S. center to develop an Osseoanchored Prosthesis for the Rehabilitation of Amputees program to improve mobility and quality of life for amputees.
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