Advisory Board January 27, 2026
Healthgrades on Tuesday released its annual “America’s Best Hospitals Awards,” recognizing the top 250 hospitals in the country, which included 169 Advisory Board members.
About the list
The America’s Best Hospitals list encompasses three awards:
- America’s 250 Best Hospitals, which represent the top 5% of hospitals in the United States
- America’s 100 Best Hospitals, which represent the top 2% of hospitals in the United States
- America’s 50 Best Hospitals, which represent the top 1% of hospitals in the United States
To determine the winners, Healthgrades used Medicare data from 2022-2024 to evaluate roughly 4,500 hospitals on how well they performed in 31 of the most common procedures and conditions.
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