18 PA Hospitals Among Top 250 In New National Rankings

PENNSYLVANIA — New rankings from healthcare watchdog Healthgrades placed 18 Pennsylvania hospitals in the top 250 in the United States. Four of them made the top 50.

Healthgrades — which provides info on doctors, hospitals and health care providers — unveiled its "2023 America’s Best Hospitals Awards" on Tuesday. The honors include rankings in the top 50, 100 and 250 in the nation, along with state rankings across different specialties.

The list represents 5 percent of U.S. hospitals. If all hospitals performed similarly to the top 250, 160,615 lives could have been saved, according to Healthgrades.

"Healthcare decisions are often complicated and fraught with emotion," said Dr. Brad Bowman, head of data science at Healthgrades. "By giving consumers an easy-to-understand, data-driven way to identify the hospitals in their area with the best outcomes, Healthgrades is helping all patients — no matter their background — confidently choose higher quality care."

Lancaster General, Reading, Chester County, and Lankenau hospitals all made the top 50.

The top 250 includes the following Pennsylvania hospitals:

• St. Luke's Hospital - Bethlehem Campus
• Wellspan Chambersburg Hospital
• Einstein Medical Center Montgomery
• UPMC Harrisburg
• Milton S Hershey Medical Center
• Lancaster General Hospital
• Riddle Memorial Hospital
• Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
• Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
• Pennsylvania Hospital
• Temple University Hospital
• Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center
• Grand View Health
• Chester County Hospital
• Reading Hospital
• Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center
• Lankenau Medical Center
• WellSpan York Hospital

Healthgrades evaluated clinical performance for nearly 4,500 hospitals across more than 30 of the most common procedures and conditions. See the full methodology.

Health equity and social determinants — such as housing, food insecurity, transportation and interpersonal safety — significantly impact health outcomes, Healthgrades notes. The website plans to incorporate health-equity data into its methodology by the end of this year.

View the full list of hospitals from Healthgrades.