26 Hospitals In Florida Among America’s Best: Money

FLORIDA — It's likely that most Floridians will require hospital care at some point in their lives; but, knowing which hospitals provide the best, most affordable care can be confusing.

To aid in this decision, digital platform Money teamed up with The Leapfrog Group to compile its inaugural Best Hospitals In America list. Out of 6,000 hospitals in the nation, this year’s list spotlights 148 that consistently provide great care.

The hospitals on this year’s list span 29 states and fall into five different categories: general hospitals, children’s hospitals, rural hospitals, large teaching hospitals and small teaching hospitals.

Florida led the list with 26 top facilities included for best, affordable care. Twelve of those hospitals are part of the AdventHealth system, with the hospital in Altamonte Springs at the top of the list.

AdventHealth Altamonte Springs has also been named the No. 1 hospital in Central Florida by U.S. News & World Report, is the only hospital in Central Florida to make Newsweek’s World’s Best Hospitals 2021 list, and received an A grade for patient safety by The Leapfrog Group.

Here are the Florida hospitals on the Money list:

• AdventHealth Altamonte Springs
• AdventHealth Carrollwood
• AdventHealth Dade City
• AdventHealth Daytona Beach
• AdventHealth DeLand
• AdventHealth Orlando
• AdventHealth Tampa
• AdventHealth Wauchula
• AdventHealth Wesley Chapel
• AdventHealth Winter Park
• AdventHealth Zephyrhills
• AdventHealth for Children, Orlando
• Baptist Medical Center Nassau, Fernandina Beach
• Flagler Hospital, Saint Augustine
• Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital, Hollywood
• Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, Saint Petersburg
• Jupiter Medical Center
• Lakewood Ranch Medical Center
• Nemours Children's Hospital, Orlando
• Orange Park Medical Center
• Orlando Health South Lake Hospital, Clermont
• Orlando Health Dr. P. Phillips Hospital
• Orlando Health South Seminole Hospital, Longwood
• Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies
• Orlando Health- Orlando Regional Medical Center
• Wolfson Children's Hospital Jacksonville

To select the best hospitals, Money and The Leapfrog Group used data from The Leapfrog Group’s Hospitals Survey, its Hospital Safety Grade assessment and public data sources.

For more than 20 years, The Leapfrog Group has evaluated hospitals on numerous criteria from ICU staffing to high-risk surgery outcomes to maternity care. Factors that weighed heavily in determining this year’s best hospitals were hospital infection rates, maternity care, pediatrics, medication management, hand hygiene practices, nursing workforce and critical care.

Read more about the methodology used to determine the inaugural Best Hospitals In America list.

California, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were the states with the greatest number of best hospitals. Each of these states had 10 or more hospitals that received the designation.

See the full list of Best Hospitals In America.