Several suburban Chicago hospitals were named among Illinois’ top 10 hospitals, with three other Chicago hospitals making the report and two of them ranking among the “Best Hospitals” nationally.
The “Best Hospitals 2025-26” list, released Tuesday from U.S. News & World Report, evaluated nearly 4,440 hospitals around the nation across more 15 specialties and more than a dozen data points, including patient care, patient outcomes, patient experience, staffing and more.
In total, 504 hospitals were ranked across regions, with individual state rankings along with a nationwide “Best Hospitals Honor Roll” list of 20.
“In each state and region, hospitals with a wide breadth of excellence are recognized as Best Regional Hospitals, and the best of them are also named to the national Honor Roll,” the report described.
The “Best Regional Hospitals” were ranked based how well they performed across at least nine procedures and conditions, including common ones like hip replacement and heart failure. “Across service lines and in quality measure after quality measure, the hospitals in this group collectively define excellence,” editors said.
In Illinois, two Chicago hospitals tied, both earning the title of the No. 1 hospital in the state: Northwestern Medicine-Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Streeterville, and Rush University Medical Center on the Near West Side. Those two hospitals also ranked on the report’s national list of 20 best hospitals.
University of Chicago Medical Center also made the list of Best Regional Hospitals for Illinois, coming in at No. 3. The rest of the hospitals that ranked on the Illinois top 10 list were in the suburbs, spanning areas from McHenry, to Evanston, to Oak Lawn.
Chicago’s Shirley Ryan AbilityLab also earned honors in the report, ranking as the No. 1 hospital for rehabilitation in the country.
Here’s the full list of the top hospitals in Illinois, according to the report:
Top hospitals in Illinois
1. Northwestern Medicine-Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Rush University Medical Center (tie)
3. University of Chicago Medical Center – Chicago
4. Advocate Christ Medical Center – Oak Lawn
5. Endeavor Health Evanston Hospital – Evanston
6. Advocate Lutheran General Hospital – Park Ridge
7. Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital – Winfield
8. Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital – Lake Forest
9. Endeavor Health Edward Hospital – Warrenville
10. Northwestern Medicine-McHenry, Huntley, Woodstock Hospitals – McHenry
11. Carle Foundation Hospital – Urbana
12. Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital – Barrington
13. Endeavor Health Elmhurst Hospital – Elmhurst
14. OSF Healthcare St. Francis Medical Center – Peoria
15. Loyola University Medical Center – Maywood, and Ascension Alexian Brothers Hospital – Elk Grove Village (tie)
17. Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital – Palos Heights; Advocate Trinity Hospital – Chicago; Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital – Downers Grove; Advocate Condell Medical Center – Libertyville (tie)
21. Springfield Memorial Hospital – Springfield
And here’s the full list of 20 hospitals that made up the report’s nationwide “Best Hospitals Honor Roll List.”
Best Hospitals in the US – Honor Roll
- AdventHealth Orlando – Orlando, Florida
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital – Boston, Massachusetts
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center – Los Angeles, California
- Cleveland Clinic – Cleveland, Ohio
- Hackensack University Medical Center at Hackensack Meridian Health – Hackensack, New Jersey
- Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Houston Methodist Hospital – Houston, Texas
- Johns Hopkins Hospital – Baltimore, Maryland
- Massachusetts General Hospital – Boston, Massachusetts
- Mayo Clinic-Arizona- Phoenix, Arizona
- Mayo Clinic-Rochester – Rochester, Minnesota,
- Mount Sinai Hospital – New York City, New York
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell – New York City, New York
- Northwestern Medicine-Northwestern Memorial Hospital – Chicago, Illinois
- NYU Langone Hospitals – New York City, New York
- Rush University Medical Center – Chicago, Illinois
- Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital – Palo Alto, California
- UCLA Medical Center – Los Angeles, California
- UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center – San Francisco, California
- University of Michigan Health-Ann Arbor – Ann Arbor, Michigan
The full report from U.S. World & News Report can be found here.
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