10 Pennsylvania Hospitals Among Best In World, New Analysis Says

Editor's note: An earlier version of this article did not include all of the Pennsylvania hospitals on the list. Patch has updated the story and regrets the omission.

Ten Pennsylvania hospitals are among the best in the world, according to a new analysis by Newsweek.

The magazine’s “World’s Best Hospitals 2019” list was created in partnership with Statista, a global market research and consumer data company. According to Newsweek, 1,000 hospitals from around the world were selected for the list “based on recommendations from medical professionals, patient survey results and medical performance indicators.”

More than 200 U.S. hospitals made Newsweek’s 2019 list, including the following in Pennsylvania:

• Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania - Penn Presbyterian (Ranked 12th in US)
• UPMC Presbyterian & Shadyside (Ranked 22nd in US)
• Jefferson Health-Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals (Ranked 23rd in US)
• Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center (Ranked 85th in US)
• Penn Medicine Chester County Hospital (Ranked 96th in US)
• St Luke's Hospital Bethlehem (Ranked 125th)
• Doylestown Hospital (Ranked 150th in US)
• Reading Hospital (Ranked 161st in US)
• Geisinger Medical Center (Ranked 177th in US)
• Lancaster General Hospital (Ranked 186th)

Among the top 10 hospitals in the world, four were in the United States.

The U.S. hospitals that made the top 10 are:

• Mayo Clinic-Rochester; Rochester, Minnesota (1)
• Cleveland Clinic; Cleveland, Ohio (2)
• The Johns Hopkins Hospitals; Baltimore, Maryland (4)
• Massachusetts General Hospital; Boston, Massachusetts (6)

In addition to the global rankings, which ranked the top 10 hospitals in the world and listed 90 other hospitals in alphabetical order, Newsweek also ranked the best hospitals by country.

The magazine explained that the scores awarded to each hospital are only comparable to hospitals in the same country.

Newsweek’s rankings list the best hospitals in the U.S., Canada, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Switzerland, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Australia and Israel.

You can read more about the rankings and methodology from Newsweek here.