Newsweek Ranks Mercy Hospitals Among America’s Best for Specialty Care in 2026

Key points:

• Newsweek magazine named Mercy Hospital Springfield, Mercy Hospital St. Louis and Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City to its list of America's Best Hospitals for Specialized Care 2026.
• Mercy Hospital St. Louis was recognized on the list for care across nine specialties: cancer, cardiac, children's neurological, children's oncology, children's orthopedics, endocrine, gastrointestinal, orthopedics and pulmonology.
• Mercy Hospital Springfield was recognized for gastrointestinal care. Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City was recognized for endocrine and neurological care.
• Newsweek used four data points to compile its 2026 list of top hospitals for specialized care: hospital quality metrics, a nationwide online survey, patient experience surveys and a Statista implementation survey.

ST. LOUIS (June 3, 2026) - No matter what kind of care you need, chances are a Mercy hospital is one of America's best at delivering it.

Newsweek's newest annual list of America's Best Hospitals for Specialized Care across 10 distinct specialties includes two Mercy hospitals in Missouri and another in Oklahoma.

"Every Mercy caregiver comes to work every day with one primary motivation: provide every patient with the compassionate and expert care they deserve," said Kat Nelson, Mercy chief quality officer. "With that mentality, excellence follows and our patients benefit. We're proud to see that critical work recognized across so many disciplines at three of our hospitals."

Mercy Hospital St. Louis led the way with recognition on the America's Best list for care across nine specialties: cancer, cardiac, children's neurological, children's oncology, children's orthopedics, endocrine, gastrointestinal, orthopedics and pulmonology.

Also in Missouri, Mercy Hospital Springfield was recognized for gastrointestinal care.

Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City made the America's Best list for endocrine and neurological care.

Newsweek used four data points to compile its 2026 list of top hospitals for specialized care: hospital quality metrics, a nationwide online survey, patient experience surveys and a Statista implementation survey.

The data is pulled from public sources and recommendations from leading healthcare professionals across many specialties.

Mercy, one of the 15 largest U.S. health systems and named the top large system in the U.S. for excellent patient experience by NRC Health, serves millions annually with nationally recognized care and one of the nation's largest and highest performing Accountable Care Organizations in quality and cost. Mercy is a highly integrated, multi-state health care system including 55 acute care and specialty (heart, children's, orthopedic and rehab) hospitals, convenient and urgent care locations, imaging centers and pharmacies. Mercy has over 1,000 physician practice locations and outpatient facilities, more than 5,000 physicians and advanced practitioners and more than 50,000 caregivers serving patients and families across Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Mercy also has clinics, outpatient services and outreach ministries in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. In fiscal year 2025 alone, Mercy provided more than half a billion dollars of free care and other community benefits, including traditional charity care and unreimbursed Medicaid.