25 PA Hospitals Honored Among Nation's Best: U.S. News

PENNSYLVANIA — Numerous hospitals around Pennsylvania are among the best in the nation, according to the latest rankings from U.S. News & World Report. The lists, released Tuesday, even show one Pennsylvania hospital nabbing a spot on the outlet's coveted "honor roll" of facilities that excel in multiple areas.

For 2022, just 20 of the 164 hospitals featured in the list were on the Honor Roll. The Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian is Philadelphia was one of them.

All told, the 33rd edition of the list includes 25 hospitals around Pennsylvania.

U.S. News evaluated more than 4,500 hospitals in 15 specialties and 19 procedures and conditions, adding rankings for ovarian cancer surgery, prostate cancer surgery and uterine cancer surgery to its 2022 list.

The following hospitals were ranked in Pennsylvania:

1. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
2. UPMC Presbyterian
3. Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
4. Penn Medicine Lancaster General Hospital
5. Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
6. Lankenau Medical Center
7. Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest
8. UPMC Harrisburg
9. St. Luke's University Hospital - Bethlehem Campus
10. Reading Hospital
11. Paoli Hospital
12. Pennsylvania Hospital
13. Bryn Mawr Hospital
    13. Doylestown Health
    15. Temple University Hospital
    16. UPMC Passavant
    17. Abington Jefferson Health
    18. Chester County Hospital
    19. Geisinger Medical Center
    20. St. Mary Medical Center
    21. Allegheny General Hospital
    22. Mount Nittany Medical Center
    23. UPMC Hamot
    24. WellSpan York Hospital
    25. Jefferson Health Northeast

The 2022-23 rankings also took into account several health equity measures for the first time, noting hospitals which provide more care to low income patients and those which have racial disparities in medical and surgical outcomes.

Doylestown Health, which finished 7th in the Philadelphia metro area and 13th statewide, issued a statement acknowledging the rankings and their placement.

“Our performance as an independent health system and the high marks we receive for patient
safety and experience are the result of continuous efforts and focus on the quality of care
delivered to each and every patient,” President and CEO Jim Brexler said in a statement. “Achieving
regional and national recognition is not our goal, but we humbly accept."

The rankings are meant to help patients and doctors make health care decisions, according to Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor of U.S. News.

U.S. News made several adjustments in its evaluation of hospital visits in 2020 to normalize its 2022 rankings against the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The rankings excluded all hospital visits in March 2020 as well as visits in which a patient was diagnosed with COVID-19. Visits to any hospital were excluded if they occurred during a month of 2020 in which the hospital’s COVID-19 rate exceeded the national average.

Learn more about the U.S. News Best Hospitals methodology.

Of the hospitals evaluated, 164 earned top 50 rankings in at least one of the specialty care categories, and nearly 500 were recognized as Best Regional Hospitals, based on their strong performance in multiple areas of care.

In addition to state, regional and specialty rankings, U.S. News also announced the 20 hospitals named to this year’s Honor Roll, which recognizes the top hospitals nationwide that deliver exceptional treatment across multiple areas of care.

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, claimed the top ranking on the Honor Roll for the seventh consecutive year. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles is ranked second, and NYU Langone Hospitals came in third.

Among notable specialties, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston is the top-ranked hospital for cancer, the Cleveland Clinic is No. 1 in cardiology and heart surgery and NYU Langone Hospitals is the top hospital in neurology and neurosurgery.

See this year’s Best Hospital Rankings.