The best hospital in each state, per Newsweek

By Molly Gamble for Becker’s Hospital Review

Newsweek has released the top 600 U.S. hospitals ranked by state, sorted by a score that factors recommendations, patient experience, quality and patient-reported outcome measures. 

Hospitals from every U.S. state were eligible for the 2024 ranking and included in the nationwide survey except for those with a 1-star rating from CMS. 

Newsweek calculated scores for each hospital by weighing recommendations from peers (in-state: 32.5%; out-of-state: 7.5%); patient experience (17.5%) based on publicly available data; hospital quality metrics (40%) per CMS and the The Joint Commission; and patient-reported outcome measures implementation (2.5%). 

Newsweek partnered with Statista to conduct a national online survey for the rankings, in which tens of thousands of healthcare professionals were asked to recommend the leading hospitals from their respective state. (Recommendations for their own employer were not allowed.) A score was assigned to each hospital based on the number of recommendations received, which ultimately accounts for 40% of the overall score. 

Below are the top-ranked hospitals by state, along with the score based on the Newsweek and Statista’s model. Find the complete methodology on the scoring model here. 

Alabama
1. UAB Hospital (Birmingham): 89.91% 

Alaska
1. Fairbanks (Alaska) Memorial Hospital: 78.63%

Arizona
1. Mayo Clinic – Phoenix: 91.84% 

Arkansas
1. Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas (Rogers): 75.39%

California
1. UCLA Health – Ronald Reagan Medical Center (Los Angeles): 96.78%

Colorado
1. University of Colorado Hospital (Aurora): 87.18%

Connecticut
1. Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital: 83.70%

Delaware
1. Christiana Hospital (Newark): 78.99%

District of Columbia 
1. MedStar Georgetown University Hospital: 82.94%

Florida
1. Mayo Clinic – Jacksonville: 91.34% 

Georgia 
1. Emory University Hospital (Atlanta): 92.02% 

Hawaii
1. The Queen’s Medical Center (Honolulu): 80.95%

Idaho
1. St. Luke’s Boise Medical Center (Boise): 81.66%

Illinois
1. Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago): 93.94% 

Indiana
1. Indiana University Health West Hospital (Avon): 88.61% 

Iowa
1. University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (Iowa City): 89.44% 

Kansas
1. University of Kansas Hospital (Kansas City): 91.14% 

Kentucky
1. University of Kentucky – Albert B. Chandler Hospital (Lexington): 87.16%

Louisiana
1. Willis Knighton Medical Center (Shreveport): 85.34%

Maine
1. Maine Medical Center (Portland): 83.52%

Maryland
1. The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore): 93.06% 

Massachusetts
1. Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston): 93.08%

Michigan
1. University of Michigan Hospitals – Michigan Medicine (Ann Arbor): 96.44% 

Minnesota
1. Mayo Clinic (Rochester): 98%

Mississippi
1. Baptist Memorial Hospital Union County (New Albany): 79.66%

Missouri
1. Barnes-Jewish Hospital (St. Louis): 92.95%

Montana
1. St. Patrick Hospital (Missoula): 85.19%

Nebraska
1. Nebraska Medicine – Nebraska Medical Center (Omaha): 85.54%

Nevada
1. Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center (Reno): 75.95% 

New Hampshire
1. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon): 80.25%

New Jersey
1. Morristown (N.J.) Medical Center: 86.80%

New Mexico
1. Presbyterian Hospital (Albuquerque): 75.98%

New York
1. The Mount Sinai Hospital (New York City): 92.89%

North Carolina
1. Duke University Hospital (Durham): 92.40% 

North Dakota
1. Sanford Medical Center (Bismarck): 77.25%

Ohio
1. Cleveland Clinic: 94.22%

Oklahoma
1. Saint Francis Hospital (Tulsa): 82.74%

Oregon
1. OHSU Hospital (Portland): 90.52% 

Pennsylvania
1. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania – Penn Presbyterian (Philadelphia): 94.17% 

Rhode Island
1. Rhode Island Hospital (Providence): 81.39%

South Carolina
1. MUSC Health-University Medical Center (Charleston): 83.88%

South Dakota
1. Sanford USD Medical Center (Sioux Falls): 84.91%

Tennessee
1. Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville): 90.92%

Texas
1. Houston Methodist Hospital:n 93.71% 

Utah
1. University of Utah Hospital (Salt Lake City): 91.09%

Vermont
1. The University of Vermont Medical Center (Burlington): 80.04%

Virginia
1. University of Virginia Medical Center (Charlottesville): 83.87%

Washington
1. University of Washington Medical Center (Seattle): 88.98%

West Virginia
1. WVU Medicine (Morgantown): 78.37%

Wisconsin
1. University of Wisconsin Hospitals (Madison): 92.60%

Wyoming
1. St. John’s Health (Jackson): 78.08%