These PA Hospitals Among Best In U.S.: Money

PENNSYLVANIA — Ten hospitals from Pennsylvania have been named to an annual list of the nation's best hospitals from around the country.

The Best Hospitals In America list was compiled by finance magazine Money and nonprofit watchdog The Leapfrog Group, which is already well-known for its safety grades.

2022's list narrows the list of the nation's best down to 148 hospitals, with some surprising oversights in the Keystone State. Here are the 10 that made it:

• Butler Memorial, Butler
• Geisinger St. Luke's, Orwigsburg
• Jefferson Bucks, Langhorne
• Lancaster General, Lancaster
• Paoli Hospital, Paoli
• St. Luke's, Easton
• St. Luke's, Allentown
• St. Luke's, Bethlehem
• Temple, Philadelphia
• Wellspan, Waynesboro

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.

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. Florida led the way with 26 top facilities.

See the full list of Best Hospitals In America.