These are the 5 best Ohio hospitals for 2025, US News & World Report says
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The 2025–26 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals evaluated 216 hospitals in Ohio and 19 met high U.S. News standards and are recognized as Best Regional Hospitals.
Top 5 hospitals in Ohio
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland
- #1 in national Ohio rankings
- Nationally ranked # 3 in gastroenterology and GI surgery, #3 in cardiology, #5 in geriactrics, and #8 in obstetrics and gynecology.
- Patient experience: 4 out of 5 stars
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus
- #2 in national Ohio rankings
- Nationally ranked #15 in ear, nose and throat, #22 in rehabilitiation, #28 in urology and #33 in pulmonology and lung surgery,
- Patient experience: 3 out of 5 stars
OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus
- #3 in national Ohio rankings
- Ranked as “high performing” in gastroenterology and GI surgery and neurology and neurosurgery
- Patient experience: 4 out of 5 starts
The Christ Hospital, Cinnicinnati
- #4 in national Ohio rankings
- Ranked as “high performing” in geriactrics and orthopedics
- Patient experience: 4 out of 5 stars
Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest Hospital
- #5 in national Ohio rankings
- Ranked as “high performing” in cardiology, gastroenterology and GI surgery, geriactrics, neurology and neurosurgery and pulmonary and lung surgery.
- Patient experience: 3 out of 5 stars
Criteria for best hospitals
To be named Best Regional Hospital, a facility needs to:
- Earn at least eight High Performing ratings out of the 22 evaluated procedures and conditions
- Have at least five more High Performing ratings than the total number of Evaluated ratings (the lowest rating tier) it received
- Offers a full range of general medical and surgical services (as opposed to a specialty hospital)
To be considered for evaluation, a hospital has to meet at least one of the following criteria:
- It was a teaching hospital
- It was affiliated with a medical school
- It had at least 200 beds set up and staffed
- It had at least 100 beds and offered at least four out of eight advanced technologies associated with high-quality care, such as a PET/CT scanner and certain precision radiation therapies
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